Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2257b52f6609ce9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 20:01:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a78e345e619fcf77d1559913a1373793 SHA-1: 3498ba863473ca1060d4d7fa9b9e5b4f49a816aa SHA-256: e2257b52f6609ce909e280a3d5d511abcaf58eda372b88d6d9bf2ceeb735e1eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Static analysis revealed numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further supports a phishing or SEO-based distribution strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=t+cell+subsets+and+their+functions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/27798731284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/71906849584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e32b18f8bf0eabf8e8fd842c777b06d/bovuwasodupuzusaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3715364b9a---24651781754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dde59e75d09---nusotamalize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ead11b87d---41678708626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742aaf89e50---19927406272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfdbc90456---kozoxozinizofogimijarax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/rugazuvivekotogifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af2778d7998---52442684034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/59157517833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e270abadd9---mirodujivibig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608584c2f2631---4228656480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/86826869308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songpinhao.com/userfiles/files/47615096504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/wulaxotewoliwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b60466adc46---pumizukawod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/68813492440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a781c8cc585---logekiwowozenogitutapevat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/kafudovijirunenepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a923852b35c---boxasogujadoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebymtm.com/upload/files/5206711132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roofmed.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716d3af1bb5---91352244209.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_off0000f14a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF14A 10920 bytes
SHA-256: c01b7fa346a2fd4345924a277402184fc729c4e08ca6c18c6d97ccd1742382e0
font_01_sfnt_off00010a4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012260.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12260 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 8d18f3691a7ec6d491f2fc78cbd1416d2c6f1fa23ff7b405f263676d24b7d470