Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2819cc0de82a7c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-08-16 05:55:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ce28e7ea6e37e574c26214159cbc66b4 SHA-1: 1694ee5b8ca285bae8d504dfbf1158a6734a3f88 SHA-256: e2819cc0de82a7c8427297b1db3d5a52a85eab42117d13ae558b38f7d2fd0b4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to these compromised sites via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608729d3d55ba---memifataguvif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ediljolli.com/userfiles/files/lixijirusitavokasuzazajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovechardonnayhills.com/userimages/xapuwovan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gk9pqfb159olr7bfbdeoc6hvh2/29435321343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/88996685239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0834683ad835bb619abe8e72cafca71/19927603557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltanimalpark.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bce2e2b79f3e70f8f438675dc35d7367/kopofupenurosexik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48f002f2d5ffebeabf86c6e1dff8e11a/77903135877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/nepobogovafegemubunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89664c0b4b5339a38bdf3930349c5b40/21461855446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a92f5c5abe3e7bcc327962a83fcf88d8/65123543710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05f19b50d407b8f0e27f959e8c7b047e/tizajiwuvinavojibarad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u33qeimbdn5nqg8mg34clvbfhf/biwoduberux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764339a51cf---wagalutojunisujomodowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8tajdiodcqbl132o838jafbtm5/94905355520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/9884377819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianfonmm.com/d/files/74804491344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608203c142a64---xakuzagujidilipijokubam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahrestygz.com/userfiles/files/20210815_170224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/62802066167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/fimizaduzujinowoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedcal-wpbe.com/uploads/file/90626422979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f34b22c5e0---mugusixilewovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbgprpk7biiq.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bevusaluvixeloramu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/50821471437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+support+cultural+diversity+in+the+classroomPDF 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_off0000e025.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE025 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f83c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF83C 11136 bytes
SHA-256: fe9a9d60aef9f57a287f5c958fa857aa9b5b96ba1c33ba5f3650e35438d4c4fe
font_02_sfnt_off00011211.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11211 16456 bytes
SHA-256: 35b46c3874c5c5cbb07757f5dddac8c10cc60118c032939c24b3d87f5614700a