Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2a2b7c21183b30f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 05:50:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 91a4adf95e8054e9be27ae385dc5724d SHA-1: dc2b7fd6798f504bd810932e1033f27551033e13 SHA-256: e2a2b7c21183b30f67469857baf5a2084c877af05829d2e108db3dfd2359a7ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards a tactic of luring users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=recover+deleted+text+messages+android+without+pc+no+root PDF link annotation
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/31572874759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esicm-old.org/admin/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15441707.com/data/board/file/20210911080313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369daa1d26d---96953498081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolninskayahotel.com/userfiles/file/fexopamadusawomililusifot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcroyale.hk/userfiles/27376154057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/kedufaxedegomodawelaxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3720ab6f0c9c6aed22ab3136444073d/vofuxomaxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/13931642975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://democv.associasuite.com/imagenes/contenidos/files/21418608862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irvinenott.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/butonopujobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garantc.ru/userfiles/file/93589243850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advocaatindex.nl/images/uploads/13573510325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fond.ru/userfiles/file/jukew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyediajandekotletek.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/giden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/522521f4bd0eaffaaa91d2e33d34be4f/31293908991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phuketwebstudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46241766619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/92349180879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinching.com/uploadpic/files/202109120401128565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girisimhaber.com/uploads/file/tutijoledazovaral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiduongmetal.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/63973083746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d9d855ea71---mukikedepitupat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkmarine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1631139124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinocastillo.hu/editor_up/99608645294.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_off0000e194.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE194 17804 bytes
SHA-256: cc19e9c774b7ef0acecc56b3327f7ca98e32e33c8788250c9d7d285df502eabf
font_01_sfnt_off00010f5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F5C 11360 bytes
SHA-256: fb2e64d8b926890be0c0cac04fb2cfaaa938efeddbe26ab9d916fe80c6fd0f00
font_02_sfnt_off000129ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1