Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2699f9f458c4dc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-12 16:22:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5e8474113ad22978aec9b790cbdd1f29 SHA-1: 20d894c4f39f937a9c61826db62b843b83b64a55 SHA-256: e2699f9f458c4dc8ca04e6bc5c029eed2a63e8f8b0f0006e684690c908fd7931
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute phishing or malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=equilibrium+questions+and+answers+chemistry
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smrir6990b9gh4nbdpn1c3pgnq/vebogepofodukanilofoxiwi.pdf
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4cef0f574adee4bb507891c32f247fe/kodigozuwasuvefu.pdf
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/510cbc254368b83f8c154a4cd7a163b8/nedolu.pdf
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/5558471128.pdf
    • https://procogs.com/FCKeditor/file/93437648767.pdf
    • http://stepasidemedical.com/images/uploads/file/7274607723.pdf
    • http://ghioroiu.ro/sites/default/files/file/fizinus.pdf
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/vusozarejanimafodisumepo.pdf
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9efd6593c0---36310180492.pdf
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d06bd602da---54608757388.pdf
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889352251b4---zebazukanodijerobones.pdf
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fbeffb11c1---xejelo.pdf
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/28222224530.pdf
    • http://soldresold.com/Shradhdha-Mehra/soldresold/final/ckeditorimage/files/85341297286.pdf
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/56220099778.pdf
    • http://sunnysidehighschoolclassof59.com/clients/867562/File/74995301205.pdf
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8fa00c7b4040d11c9b99ee646c0eb88/63963062614.pdf
    • https://cafepiolho.com/uploads/assets/fovosatepomigapikem.pdf
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/48782187380.pdf
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/23480439185.pdf
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee80f9776dc78eb4c356078e51a15eb1/39553344082.pdf
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021061412593360.pdf
    • http://oryginalnedekoracje.pl/userfiles/file/98134015554.pdf
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6c48febcf3f692644c2069e1ef0ffce/40001333728.pdf
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cba076c9be---24413365965.pdf
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d628be44bce---37878216828.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_off0000e4ee.bin
7a9bb3cc3545435db1c58ce3c573bc317a923f02f3904e16d577c3da97e437ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4EE 18096 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000114fe.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114FE 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d15.bin
3fd1d802f9ff3aa34ca8de11a932a17e954827176b3c9f0f1dcb2f4b1f6e498c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D15 11204 bytes