Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2bc03cb40c0e74c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 18:35:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a08499029ec27e388003e5178e07b68a SHA-1: 5b5ff29cd8d00238bfccc44fb46251f7160a8b86 SHA-256: e2bc03cb40c0e74ca0c730450a1f919cbb22852c11d5759fbec5f71a5bd243fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure are consistent with exploitation for client execution, potentially involving embedded JavaScript.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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 http://shipagents.nl/uploadfiles/file/11735877839.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/602bef0def651d96a6de4989c228153a/gomijosukilosig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtdental.com/upload/ckimg/files/76782096257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd41a6ba90---pugedamiposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25e8e2b5e8f86dcee0e4b2f7b7700ae4/simokafusepotuvife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iic6bv2h5pre96fsdgu52l9mac/nuxarigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57dn4nacjdqubaui23rhhea198/88854207474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/63498726588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/rafosideribadomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070364bd8eeb---nemiwomupogebutira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba563f3d925822c88c7433d541040513/29055715347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/foped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bea8e09b4ad---71389199803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4uu05ke05keq892v9rp09q11d/5937427818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomartani.eu/userfiles/files/gutegowen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/daripuminefum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b5be7ac06---7935131338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8de54080eb4afceea26963e1b8a4545/94896055560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangtaisay.com/uploads/userfiles/file/69149356445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608184b1d08ef---85951937732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccspatti.org/userfiles/file/pegirubakadugawikadivob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77a39nlfhicgop02rg3rn0l7eq/xubida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deasreunion.com/clients/860224/File/gidasowezupabiris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/siuognbv4p3inu4lis08l1863i/65005834979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v0ues2309cfh5aa88mto05jpaq/bunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=small+blue+bird+with+white+bellyPDF 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_off00011134.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11134 18644 bytes
SHA-256: e56ba88a88686896e75d288e60e73131dfb8f756a2983e545751a16247062f5b
font_01_sfnt_off00014102.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14102 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 2b13d8cd989f6bf82c370283de3fd63edea96531a8150841ea457b1e5800a06d
font_02_sfnt_off00015966.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15966 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1