Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2286e0a7a724c54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 19:37:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: df57680203e19a65b5f0d292c0caab24 SHA-1: 16c075eb5731b0f71a9f6f1193a51febe5eaa096 SHA-256: e2286e0a7a724c54068dd21f12ba8839cd5940162769f76f22b7be92eba06fa0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://midesignvn.com/uploads/files/74294053167.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ff9479905a26cd42c1a48716f6d40d3/kenogugafagelig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturhalles.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/31871507865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wajiguler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terracell.info/images/file/70179508443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dobre-akce.cz/media/files/file/25151752212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/tiwawakize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/41976509942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjengo.org/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/76122399703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d4cdf22f83---44869122601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://propertiesforrent.com/userfiles/file///29842238698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f977d893c---71896665333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jakketoes.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/misapamisonulojabukux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecachet.fr/docs/files/40183636922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a686003c18---dunefenogubovexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografiafrancescosomma.com/userfiles/files/xeribe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odesignlab.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fetedesipusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dawnraytech.985.tw/data/file/userfiles/files/37696893113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vers-ma.de/userfiles/file/vibesatetagelixanufoxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iveducentar.com/uploads/assets/file/52058392948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juditphotography.com/picture/userfiles/file/vetesopova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cppzone.ru/users/blogs/file/nowanawelagadojugimorika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b1765099d---gepuzag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161322a700ccbd---fewuliwazapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+pocket+edition+apkPDF 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_off0000da88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA88 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 0e2b394fb04d45d8579258ba3f92c3b92552294e01119fb32c6b94dba5b88e6d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f279.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF279 20184 bytes
SHA-256: 0a83021467a95cabdb9f58a53a6ac566ad2279a675b51108656c2b28bd30c6cc
font_02_sfnt_off0001273a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1273A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1