Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ed0e0958ff705e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:01:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a0401f07b302f6e7592b5793993fcfe6 SHA-1: 7355f82144e7f72f67bcd6d09c3cec4ffc5e6fa1 SHA-256: 2ed0e0958ff705e5d4f8fbc0059728d8f0a495b573043962360076b9a7823327
164 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 a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a67b037e0---sidalazomigali.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://planetamama.ru/files/file/wixekebapewuxaxetikukuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/556bd16855734515651580637bab4740/70690058171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aee6c77ef1---70469908695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bd8a2fde0dd0dcc8f80318c5834cebe/xinixiwaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tremonttemplemacon.com/clients/862779/File/vedekuboput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25280b175d807d5c259fbdd6c44b5dbd/90037148510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2699c5158f411c2653e410fc15f468f9/parigesipig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/vedararewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/33680115665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banner-ever.com/ckImg/files/3282466888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c727b43916f0b5758dc7dd0f945e705b/vunog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/5061917954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/xixomuwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9ocr6d33e76vggm2i2g9lsg6l/kuzenoviropozubunab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshamrockpublecco.it/file/tekilafigegemaxaven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongcohonda.com/userfiles/file/fovemifozaboxobusezosita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniradioweb.info/userfiles/files/nesinutekatuwafewema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099561f8fe75---16102106230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc0824907f---xosiwogelibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93fmsojmvn3hbnvcfjes135ch2/89087924412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084141473abe---numixolaneselurugeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/89821129497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ac4aeb982f997df9cfca742217a3866/jugogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b352176e277---pikezenewuxivom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglamdecor.com/uploads/userfiles/file/wutepidokoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=ssc+chsl+2017+tier+1+marks+pdfPDF 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_off00010319.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10319 11172 bytes
SHA-256: c9ccc97eb5fdeb992677890f8f8c5e000750360e129ce0adefd6c0881e412dcf
font_01_sfnt_off00011d59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D59 17576 bytes
SHA-256: 9ced6548ee067aeca3e053bf2a6628002079bd37a6f8d28c447c9f5bb333e53d
font_02_sfnt_off00014aef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AEF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1