Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2cca7da2b704829…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:31:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ce3fb8c9d0708da8d39e6239ff64bd16 SHA-1: 4d9efbbe884b618f577d1f298756c66ab1f23995 SHA-256: e2cca7da2b7048294c02ff6a0179e3b265a0ee07d8627a3167b096a3791601be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jetirilad.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26bf6aaf223101f9a3f05f5283761c2d/94533121495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vv-alc.nl/uploads/files/43370509863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/26971941978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a400f263ce6---27960799920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lossfundraisingevent.com/clients/f/f5/f5ed5e364f2f51aa46a4c5982fab9a07/File/legigevuwepibigukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartoriaventurini.com/userfiles/files/88969799253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhanvietgroup.com/demo/xay-dung-tnx/upload/files/kewegotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce4edea56f---vogaxuligokulemawor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltaguvenlik.net/userfiles/file/terivuvofifiwepena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c65b8f46fcd7b60f50deebdf93ea85b/mobusoravar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pappteam.hu/userfiles/file/vemekiputowuvakurowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/98448794297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio-salsa.com/php/rs/filesupload/file/51603801738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artside.org/data/temp/file/34045549210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veoguidecostarica.com/ci/userfiles/files/93892820216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708d6860705---gagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/59718991295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kgmda.com/upload/files/peper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/87402011661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/50969934011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuaspa.com/upload/images-content/files/zanuxizaruzudara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/vefusofixaxapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ee10bc91f---bimala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=moral+dilemmas+philippa+foot+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_off0000f093.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF093 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108AA 10652 bytes
SHA-256: a6f2295f0652dff7f532b6a0beff1672273a746db07f9ddf67bfc8dc4e7c8ff4
font_02_sfnt_off000120fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120FD 20448 bytes
SHA-256: 032a22cbb3071cf526caa5d48c059098e17b6ab24f2b7e9abd5f586ee01c51a7