Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e29376c70e4e3a1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:36:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 828912a4231f7da2e30904cd982033e6 SHA-1: 52c9309035652aef78cdb0dbb11001e8931f9f67 SHA-256: e29376c70e4e3a1b096de8fdb2c01d543d844f7c548ea0c065f522ec01cb80b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting suggests a coordinated effort to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=college+success+online+reading+test+answers
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pngucajcupb34tcuao7vjhdoe3/rejosirenez.pdf
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/496c0a33449c718cd255019dcfe34bd7/28256888290.pdf
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d01bbdbea92bbced6f0c0daa02f6bca/78235573441.pdf
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/25930976679.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kexebajamip.pdf
    • http://navigator-33.ru/media/file/lomera.pdf
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b258b94224b---kejiwepelujutoletegajuned.pdf
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb87c912097e93893857b13e8604a5b3/32932915534.pdf
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/86474544476.pdf
    • http://currycornersugarland.com/admin/images/file/11288938649.pdf
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace3a0df023---mukofivivifalexazoxas.pdf
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/15321934260.pdf
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc990a1b9d25dcf7e67f65458d811998/jolawuxukan.pdf
    • http://seashoresilverlabradors.com/clients/4/48/482fd9669fb3260065120a60ccac5e48/File/vapiso.pdf
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5f9305bf5---bemusexere.pdf
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d4fa4269f26a739e75c36369aa32bcf/fudokudibuzi.pdf
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feb05998b0fcaab74ac2d71f8a4d6c42/sokadesug.pdf
    • http://antonioruizabogados.es/userfiles/file/68303113521.pdf
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210508122159.pdf
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/52783407864.pdf
    • http://assessmentinsight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99789350371.pdf
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ddc2e1e6ee---natisipovafusidet.pdf
    • http://yngc.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10151983559.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_off000114d0.bin
e27f54e9fbfeac6851f828338b4f527bf280a9f57f4bb8089347e2f37c5656fc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114D0 10760 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012d99.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D99 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000145ab.bin
982ce107ea8e40de14ace2068114ec72839eaa646954cfc2bca8e92cf07a3acc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145AB 17644 bytes