Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2923e5c02ebf9fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-16 17:00:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5846f18c1832b99de722a105e788b838 SHA-1: 9a9c26a993157c405311f51b9d82666c9ef9db82 SHA-256: e2923e5c02ebf9fa0c3724a9aac0c4035a2769e3f6b9ccb0d752c67e4bfc43c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it's designed to lead users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and link farms suggests an effort to distribute malicious content broadly.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ae7d67884---bigajilenumalipixibile.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/618nml6ohkgau099vojpu1qtaf/rafudumagaxofopumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ff27411fa6b986ee333be22274a6f82/mekewodikagojenakixivopob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r5oci7ulhoaenjveegrgu32qmc/depimerebatujojavegeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cabf8abbcfc---58350138717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laurallo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12574541773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ujuib6hfpjsmf7mifqbgqreq27/lujavetenaraga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/68706534503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessservicesuk.com/userfiles/file/88117972946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ddd546a125dfee39da408747340b209/rejejikenopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e21068af46---37474584238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d15048f855---mesikapinakukekofonamoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/jumawepagero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b60ca8bb7---65555032102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5d14c7b8384c5eb4edb8a4fc5b26f2a/55342326632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c4787994a---rutizejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///97212332196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-14/20210614092040620642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ahh6imludq7abj0so777461v3/bukupinarovavemesobinitum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/75916335817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a423b515b4f---nonuzawujek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e36842546---64887607560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=loose+connective+tissue+histologyPDF link annotation
    • http://janyska.home.pl/_mjanyska2013/fotki/file/90913652759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ece4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F6 17012 bytes
SHA-256: d02c11bcd3eef905ff97ee1d9c1b766547bb1e14b13f66d1c212a7cf69a57b83
font_02_sfnt_off00013179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13179 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 898fd83dfde79a58895bdb413d3b7b0e7146ce57dda3933f5b650d16472d2fb1