Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ea42238b018f969…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-07-14 06:56:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 040521d9b31e6a08c9c067d90d91f0ab SHA-1: 14109106bcff7028e00f75cf0578ddbf4ca1144c SHA-256: 2ea42238b018f96969ccf7711b8a21d96c8c172eba3831e8a7cb3a271f81a619
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12a58606cb0a7ad33beea4c5733a9e77/65262750885.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c189e2368ee68ce5dfe929291f237a39/bavupewubebiwumarubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad899f40495---mofugovijozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dursunguney.com/userfiles/files/molanibefuduzexikukowefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/65099875467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69a493808ee4816e3595883b78fb4699/kevikeniri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/vuzubidinutixulave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607875e9a30f9---pupowerifexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/jusowafidelenaxasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6af695eecdc708729a407941ccd78745/33084520769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/19848183653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b75c6fd32---nudijurutekavuvowakev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vksraja.in/fckeditor/upload/file/guvazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamasia.net/upload/files/44959183966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lev-steklo.ru/userfiles/file/59297825809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/18020182971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a9d113103f---29507435879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oodow.cn/upload/file/210620153646794249wep7obohy1jh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46dc5eddfcb86a3e13ef63077617754b/jiloturu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/letefufudebexarofanok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9ecda2150---guvunilalezunefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/jupumobedilafobek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udemadriatic.com/userfiles/files/sibusaxugogenuzudutop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naphotelbangkok.com/userfiles/files/dezomujuxokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/xazazikifavoref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/fofuduwodugituwolugezeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adainst.com/uploade/files/20210704010018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ne9sahiditgb8rjpbqg53ot3s3/bewitakozokilekap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+trudgesPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dacd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDACD 17876 bytes
SHA-256: 84605e95ba6de9ac54991aebb45e076350fd903de1d532cfcadc724143a01fd2
font_01_sfnt_off00010900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10900 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012117.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12117 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 3d36cf1bc0787078b50e4693f0391b263c9d7a89275c047204963e39af517bc6