Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2536f7eae2d33ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-15 13:35:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 42f5a885e9e8cddb0dda759a909a8ce1 SHA-1: 9b594257676d8de7259747ba294beb8aaf973136 SHA-256: e2536f7eae2d33ec2fd6d655bdff35f6e7c837c12a2b741d027e95b9c1cd0d0e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt to track user engagement, common in phishing or spam campaigns. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the 'PDF_URI' heuristic suggest it's designed to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brainwriting+is+the+process+of+brainstorming+by+using
    • http://culbertsonlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/42921733765.pdf
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47d7d5a3479e27745372894f40c8c7ca/jafon.pdf
    • https://aslplastic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tefovumaparoretematud.pdf
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jsa8ffqucfvlv661fvj76qid16/36402915561.pdf
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/kemamajadusujuk.pdf
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f05255fa04734b7fbb5dac57736b82a/97677303641.pdf
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1n3ggd2h03ra2bavc1b3s7ftrf/vabonapalaziludogef.pdf
    • http://thaoduocvn.com/userfiles/image/file/gafalomuwod.pdf
    • http://elijahlaurabishopblack.com/clients/b/be/bed082b287f5bb70db4763ab929fc18a/File/zomipiwawivobabekojabozu.pdf
    • http://cnkls.com/userfiles/file/1623666302.pdf
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/87716261453.pdf
    • http://owtsreunion.com/clients/e/e7/e717deb27d844c69ffc49b2d3c0bb1a5/File/rapatok.pdf
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef3df1118c---weboba.pdf
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a427692b163a5694f25a2c59ebad6156/zelujivizibu.pdf
    • http://karunb.com/UpLoads/files/vonab.pdf
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3202f144d8---zexeripotixaroroj.pdf
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa70ed40003---fusadudowulumi.pdf
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d92329a7242---nafonemunofidobatas.pdf
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/rupupefabuweruliv.pdf
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/tumov.pdf
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072428d72733---zizovidupitidesamufa.pdf
    • https://aksukartela.com/images_upload/files/58552789210.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083dfc30763d---kirizunowuduzedamerupoz.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f2f3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F3 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010b0a.bin
1ed03c03a4e8102b2c13b47cd16d31f247836344385235a79804449dab89dc5f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0A 11372 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001258f.bin
50d3bc6f9dbb8a6a4abb9e11241e5a29d3fb53a694941c21123d5a12e4bce7a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1258F 16976 bytes