Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0e2e60cee21376f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-13 18:46:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4d5b8d83e99dda91170698c2f548864d SHA-1: 54fc35cabd7d104025313dde67bdb5d2914beb59 SHA-256: d0e2e60cee21376fca6aa1baf6e77fdc01a8ba628377945c4535877bc5b59d12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload sites and disposable hosting domains. The embedded URLs likely serve to distribute further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://sibmetiz.ru/upload_picture/26269556762.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e910074324---65625353558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9458b29850c7177e9ee4a558ee411cf6/46320273924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df1fea37f60---kenefipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3de1maqs84bjr05beu3165l3jg/96587735432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd7ed585e70c87f47d40926fa7f6d180/49344776540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/medumunuganugenapefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zzld.com/uploadfile/file///2021062011032573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/90985774379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1ebac65ef5---35354886589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/8787219449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/gaxopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inezorviskids.com/clients/37546/File/73432185490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/xedajefadiwubidijitavotir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6dd656726e3e069393046dfff0f46bf/71403574107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73e9d9dada675e5bf1f06c1058d20447/10807562249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coffeetuanvang.com/Images_upload/files/kasuboro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797cc15fd74---18823699498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69354b74a47499e3eb5294e39ada9f51/xitolorijapifimituta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smart-ventures.ch/upload/Editor_Images/files/41577819413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607796b0310e2---44230350038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73e8253db6f45d7587d4830b8319a016/97336647052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/vademanixajurasuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=self+building+house+minecraftPDF 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_off0000f42e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF42E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C45 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 5cc0e79b12a0ce9bab8d9301ca335df4fef25f023da0b156815b34f189b2f065
font_02_sfnt_off00012628.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12628 16924 bytes
SHA-256: a86ff13c6365c20ec3497b0035399dfecf6fa495b946f5fbdc619ada95b7f637