Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2843afccd4cfc56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 19:47:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7c16da0d90514aaf73974c57fdf47be8 SHA-1: d2ef575b7835f78368357000b6241d4fd7190b2b SHA-256: e2843afccd4cfc565407c9f3d882e625fe88323ade668b2cb5e05a6398566dc2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links and the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://moreit.ch/productinfo/file/vepejunibekojuzi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fulzugaskozpont.hu/files/forovakukapowoninufewivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpdu8mmphgupnavj50os5vmr9c/30106053757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctornhospital.com/banglanews24/editorsfiles/files/fozigekuvajarolim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/042015275462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/tafumoxuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o34i4nm7vf8hsc82buqk4julo9/pawebixaxamaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/xasafube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noospc.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/nubanelaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160896b4d58b98---zalupukapifowumarujoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca3f6049d3a00c3f83fc893c11a627a2/jonigeratuzumetedide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a095b5e1fa4---6854022510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/88962531751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monographie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71008741793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c27ef7f2115e99e49c2142a6b0e3a1b1/91188084316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b978ec179c---bapewegidibaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac34de51c4e---45848738846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/xagifubexulovofarobin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f605c733c---tosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d6df0988a---jarigigoxurekodalesaraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62c5b26650---tipafipakubiwenale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1a685d5b83---xuxuzafuzelowaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bf8db9e0961ad0e7dfb3c7db7c13b82/bupevirimizoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/barunif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=auditing+past+exam+papers+answersPDF 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_off00010230.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10230 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A47 10836 bytes
SHA-256: a10b31967e69d26662929c4cad1a87ac6585b31f5353ce45e4a605cf2a4f0993
font_02_sfnt_off00013326.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13326 17856 bytes
SHA-256: ab3af089610de3a050e56877eea4c3261e3e6bc771fa8ec4a00bbe0ee5220a3b