Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2cc3e0a4b7efc2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

124.1 KB Created: 2021-07-05 04:18:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 0ee4fd70bc1fcfc0b1a506d57e2cb561 SHA-1: 58018b706b28d146d8c81b4fba07285f4d296158 SHA-256: e2cc3e0a4b7efc2b16abe55254384d7ec621731ae55c9ded57cb24c70bfaef92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing lure, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9758

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://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848c5cd64ce---25554773813.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82c6f6977f7b55a59d8cac7ede8addfc/93048788106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/saviwiririnuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d3920d79c---86101177889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16154c8611b6de7b72220d10c2e0595f/pezegulugopamevose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84985223190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a288689cbf8---toniwafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36c04aae67dd09a7e5d9d56929403228/81811770905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/36367519107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/4432270108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgd42.ru/userfiles/file/30770339006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9b4085847---7216162579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/91496235638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b76143b94a---kamonotagezejej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eba072dec972e0e7c3e6ea7b94094a93/jaguwizedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc68f6f64507154d5bc6145dde69020e/34275688212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5901842dc---fibumonamumoxupixojuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fce68a77a672a92a24d37a0a371a534e/33103054566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ee47ced84---16922483858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096153fbb352---wewomunopodefez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57f5ffe6ea710e25fa181cd206aeceb4/tutemex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fc6eec7bc57d8460dd099f5020f6b4d/kalizoxujazenozig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencelesaline.it/userfiles/files/setomazowisapito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/68725266881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a15bfe57fc---90784761848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4744537392---raremujalulenegoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=tik+tok+one+night+stand+songPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000174ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x174AD 21800 bytes
SHA-256: 90f649628e32357aae950308170c6895b0bb364701f77f6882f4ce2603069a37
font_01_sfnt_off0001ab0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AB0B 1856 bytes
SHA-256: 184a936bd1ce5dff700adc4e6a12c67a52a21ba3f6bd4f31defed58e18ed8b92
font_02_sfnt_off0001b3b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B3B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001cbca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CBCA 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 357d9ccfa81b35b2d7f083991368055dad88bea187b5ef286d2f374d4f8ae395