Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2a5f31c48f47502…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:52:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 27149784d3605962af16e28fb73182c6 SHA-1: 707af7c5946e72574d7ea994c4708a572d111b02 SHA-256: e2a5f31c48f47502481b7d1a74283afeaa4ed5b78e078c21bf9c291b3830511c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of numerous PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 http://china-miyaco.com/img/file/2021621221351.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864911dfb1f---84985550964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4a9d0jiu2q8c28t7mpr3p1egl/7197252496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giovanniseneca.eu/userfiles/files/kexaseno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/65804754495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/206c6049df6fda35fd1855b0e7997863/vuziko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/durizenejufudos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kindspring.org/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27153131510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c8908df63ac43b3aecb69aef6bcd648/9168031952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6df447da0db892931cc568dd71cea3e/41047546002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/getubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/wezuborekokiranip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tresonance.org/uploadfiles/13337776195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091765a93c82---54336176334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/60032841987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160faa21dd7213---77518766875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medianet2000.net/amm_prod/image_news_popup/file/19508111387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/besetasotulez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odesignlab.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49469671431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kehlux.lu/userfiles/files/gitizusiganuvupigob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minutemen-jrotc.com/clients/84940/File/bowoxitilolekafapazifex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeria-millemiglia.de/app/webroot/img/editor/file/xirurumakajarurelewizudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pellevah.com/upload/files/63635800100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/sipusiledade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+structural+systems+in+architecture+pdfPDF 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_off00011975.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11975 19260 bytes
SHA-256: b523957db2278217fa4529a44a689970b6d540953bbef0c8c8485e49c4e48e36
font_01_sfnt_off00014b84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B84 11064 bytes
SHA-256: f599e3855b27c483c04d597e82ba0dbe6108edcf4e09ea8ff2ca7e23fde586f2
font_02_sfnt_off0001651c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1651C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1