Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0242deeea58480a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:48:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1071b5c66c65c6414aa7f8a739d16afe SHA-1: 2cd84a8b0c049bcb5cc3fca7d03d8caa39a5df82 SHA-256: e0242deeea58480ae0bb35df868f7abf7244909e8ed11b9ea5145d1d7c8e46ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a443b866982---86027303760.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078fbcf55507---31293185446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab0e759ffb---25558321999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eventoptik.de/upload/files/78497438552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alugutader.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kenaluzudok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/70012720099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/989df4d9b67bd7deac2bfe15b8793251/86259902495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/76488552781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e50bce40e35---tawedesudoremab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f21efdcf699fcc6fcee90495086c714/11636151293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mexxeopaint.com/upload/files/zatebanopujeteko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/34977273223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/vogusojativizugifafazul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/tepuzano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badoza.net/userfiles/file/bijefugipejuxide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612186501babf---tanuvizamubuzefejol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armiikrajowej36.pl/public/upload/ckfinder//userfiles/files/vuvawogowasediwipiweli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fd204eae0dd86c38cb83182554e6931/pobefopulizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victoriousintl.com/new/resource/files/jikuwipatude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/7874279543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210808142858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tratedu.net/ssss2018/assets/143ad273/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/userfiles/files/1cc8e595506f7463c513238a3bf3f9e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210803_01C31720B619AFE7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=graphing+linear+equations+in+slope+intercept+form+worksheet+answersPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c84ce7ef8c6651cfdb7ed5b91b76a908/xitewafodivugujup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cebf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEBF 11392 bytes
SHA-256: b79c86a6baa67ef9d95571826ec71ef5921ce3214da3d59e52a43ba7c4517079
font_01_sfnt_off0000e931.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE931 17716 bytes
SHA-256: e896ed0f4ea694b72fa8c105c40644370925fa9461325e2ac9a5ca599a0af860
font_02_sfnt_off00011760.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11760 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1