Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2c5a7363cab3f95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:46:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6c8e1d0538aec9441634f777b4850195 SHA-1: a21a97cc2535c1d7311d70ded60f7d6a7b418e7f SHA-256: e2c5a7363cab3f95e08b159bf7d014a8b780ba62892730a6abb47e28e6a47f02
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of link farms on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=loans+are+for+a+period+up+to+5+years
    • http://zonweringbelgie.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64222726550.pdf
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b9b8128a1---bopeselodobebijese.pdf
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/mawowanekamaxajub.pdf
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96849500245.pdf
    • https://semineebrasov.ro/printuri-fi/files/59232307943.pdf
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/kunibamuzopibusanenazito.pdf
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160adf04638f2c---wekenegufo.pdf
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/56220099778.pdf
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20v1evn7cv9ls3hephi45a40f6/pimozofaxogapafemuxub.pdf
    • https://energiadirect.pl/application/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pebavazodiwaxuwuxuwiduw.pdf
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091928c8899b---25291104890.pdf
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f853f3fbd1---95697480207.pdf
    • http://hsiwww.com/image/files/20210721_002956.pdf
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/todabegivuzikere.pdf
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9i9gklbh3kv8nnflm45k3sfb4i/39644464965.pdf
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b22290cec2---48030656328.pdf
    • https://chaletsuenodesol.de/files/vowopotisovofupadod.pdf
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6bbf38a074---bejapivewixawejasamomu.pdf
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1d1145f4f467474f8010d2a3ad0cb59/54674017932.pdf
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/peliguzotad.pdf
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4b71d1e97d---wajipabotibajapa.pdf
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gkj9rt4e51t4590s25mfa4ii00/44243708362.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e702.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE702 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff19.bin
af58a01483176d4ddf3cd403469e965b0c3f297adb6306d2db084387387e0cf5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF19 10748 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011800.bin
67e654b3eb2a61289c141e2e574aa9b0620d2da10ae33e97c6da44fd522be693
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11800 17696 bytes