Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2a308015ed2a89a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 16:27:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 309e5fc65190d1c661888f24c3ab9733 SHA-1: 127d1fc9b4e909f87ec76522bd1390acb5eb5e76 SHA-256: e2a308015ed2a89a8a3ba4fe00b96928ed65173d20f08e18113124260b3ed38b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, specifically targeting upload directories. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates these links are on disposable hosting and likely serve as lures to redirect users to malicious content, potentially for phishing or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d8f8cbbe6---63389702121.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/le0124qgrtaa9bhr4i7kkj1je7/90970489555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59822e7185e6920988f4c900a0f3401a/66322066500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b40e8c19b31d9256479534a59b886a4/kosekomoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c396379bcb2---zunudapuposi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oversaslogistica.it/file/32700730515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a814906dfecdcd5492bd88da0c3e9ae/xifezinexunawawetozeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913a269bc5d---gawamuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/85985595817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094db2c45c39---47965522183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63ama6djb8tsopbt7oh4crc75m/37654572608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96d1a190f01b992cd4ef77398bbc6538/64152536399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2987fea531ca5794c31212836e435141/ximipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00d22bf02cd42abe36738d020a666d69/josokaxopezovorupiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075356739178---mosezuvunafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/lalemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statsale.com/data/upload/ck/files/14357642715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9312166e24---sizetuwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webvitamin.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/nowupobalorejidag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/23754746576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.com/article_ressources/file/76170346403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59d6013c6c90b8fbca437d6f773e9123/tapogel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/21798343437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1609e29285b1c21eca28d5bfea8face8/kizefoselovubofapopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609edc999ac91---niximilezunuwiliteso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=laws+signed+by+presidentPDF 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_off000115f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012e02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E02 18100 bytes
SHA-256: 0206da7254cc8a81e5fc8557443b8f540c1b1bd15cbcdceb3d2c6fb4ebb02df0
font_02_sfnt_off00015da5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DA5 10700 bytes
SHA-256: db1e14b337384540ace78af8f26ec6e8a1a7092f39b226c838d6a39c7db685e3