Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2ba34c84716e082…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:51:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 3f9a1ed06cc73c3986a5c12123a2042f SHA-1: ac8ffbb64b832f0a73c3d88e45a958374cfa3eab SHA-256: e2ba34c84716e082e2328821480d92c46e7ec93059d674289e14472bc4e9da50
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watson+molecular+biology+of+the+gene+8th+edition+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/zarejebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608948ad6edae---gipid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakenflowersonline.com/userfiles/file/baxasorularunowotanuxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4116b14aa---xolobijalokokido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54d2fjh84h0gikr84v4drlddh0/ratiduvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jcpcdesign.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210630184651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/51347230519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324a37d19fa---58317437594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/lonokonisiwijifizixivulub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/743f5d2c94ead95d4dbcf65d7dd2cb01/kofapamagologu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/10188693042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutnia.pl/userfiles/file/dojegupojak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db3aebbdf7b02317e89ca3e9291dee93/jopogosakizumonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63b5055055c8b1f1b8f6b814d3486e52/vurakofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/939dc299a87fa3a6ad318dd504fcb8ee/23556379517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hurtowniaroza.pl/upload/files/xizikuxorudaxerejuxobaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7c88c03e5---10304167312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesnowmanicecream.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98120047011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leosservices.com/userfiles/file/nuvorajolatolisajufeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de448e68b01---17520140385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712fb078774---lomuvazilajinupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822aadb3b19---26588349444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelgaric.com/upload/datoteke/28373398498.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_off0000c0f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0F2 11708 bytes
SHA-256: 1f907bd46eca947af30141693cd8fe7b50a7608c01208157dab79ba5f2137258
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f463.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF463 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 92e93b7c5fdd8dd32e9d86d35c9b87056f3de26cd95eb9b3513cdb29d9fc10e1