Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2433625e3fd6cb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-16 08:05:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 06abe313635ba91ab067be86ec5179ab SHA-1: dbbf217f70450bc554eb0908b42a634420399152 SHA-256: e2433625e3fd6cb62106044aa34e5b9da7704d24ab713ae76142ce76d41786ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many links suggests a lure to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mkjqopq743do5d8v9n8v94pl04/65971221959.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gencshow.com/upload/ckfinder/files/35377342405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ct-tci.com/cttax/userfiles/files/winumelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moonlightmontessori.com/upload/files/60827680888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deshpanday.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72768374159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7a4fa24ad---19595271831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/47590566578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e401de49c3---nasopuvakalivonem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/galok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-17/20210617230140460130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9772959d13---68877881842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tjqvrhl6pkc3ro9l1koccc9u76/90623293860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jairdefreitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luwifevarut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841f2c8e854---45495922525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pg7po51nvj2l014sbkvqis9aev/dobazoxavitetodajedudipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmr2id72914nq3i7clnofmldop/xazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/grpofdigrfi4gojisu6cdpu0mn/nilegoxojowinogebuxevuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8013e93ba2---xotorozuduzuluni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tilotojirodijuxipubudibag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/stlp7qoj543n97fevhohsvk9fv/vuwamebemavojaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=download+2pac+all+songs+mp3PDF 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_off0000eeb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CB 17096 bytes
SHA-256: 16defe116230d4b320283d0349af67e3e9d8041303b45c50d0d74fd777c18074
font_02_sfnt_off000133a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133A0 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 19b085d4bcda1a3ad31787649c07b89ce92ae66cc7b8cdbf74a5938577f6189f