Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e002b544646b614f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:46:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f384538c13e2429b9bd9c76ca19e8e25 SHA-1: eb99a3a7d364acfa352914679079db1a3183895d SHA-256: e002b544646b614f135ee52ed9e0b5cfb17eca812900da410efa0a9a30d57ae5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable binary data, but the heuristics and URLs clearly show a pattern of directing users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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://momentous-inst.com/uploads/image/files/tatebakidefosunopeguga.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/molukojafuvirevokemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329071c2484---juledelinomukix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/irem4jirubc77oacjed7gq2hf2/24312613539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://85560891.com/upfolder/e/files/20210915202511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k9p559caj3sbi1cg648qg85tr0/25462212101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manhremhoangvan.vn/wp-content/uploads/files/nalotokumule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b43ba1a26b36e20348a9f54c7fb9267/kafedonuxezarin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kanat.com/upload/ckfinder/files/junazejezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domgr11.ru/uploads/files/19152020244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdrhqq7hmh53dvg31rk4b3nhv5/84690047532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkuys.handysociality.com/upload/files/86180123575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihoanghuy.com/uploads/files/xunisogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biplano.eu/userfiles/files/guxisesumopuraxexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a65220b532af72a24c004d430718986/53915547105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lenosada.sk/editor_uploads/files/vemuborosojugamak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://instalacje-elektryczne.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lozopem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fluffy-chins.com/images/file/41252278007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/pumulevogagulunup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adium.ru/userfiles/file/266827274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/84044703587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://propack-th.com/image/upload/File/pekoxenotebeselupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuantruongtech.com/images/ckeditor/files/46467351783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58f466f81a6dd028c7c493d56d4ab951/duvedozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-astar.com/UserFiles/files/rimaxozop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grubstreet.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xomuvurijaborajuxunudole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szm.hu/userfiles/file/lukisatenefojapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=square+root+with+number+outsidePDF 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_off0000b9c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9C2 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 70d26f44ae2bf4ee53162d771677e0c3f702bd6abd6ca1941a787432737fa24d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2FE 16616 bytes
SHA-256: f50203796ac8af6c3ba73d7bb1b7850149dd5721f488a5acea63b92362e42347
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDDE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1