Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2d26ce336f28e8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-08-21 18:53:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 58f63d035c9fb7b39ab6ec14ffd6bcdf SHA-1: d39970b519c0234d341cbd3a934898a88ff27608 SHA-256: e2d26ce336f28e8cf20b02eb3af42595f904fbd405614cf2e01800fb1fcaf288
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, with the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic confirming the nature of the links. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072eeb5648c5---53263913939.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://youandisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fefipapozuturoluferizufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaf2069e6b29191abe2a717ca43fc1e2/pagoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://presssimayeshahr.ir/pic/file/853180314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmuniontravel.com/userfiles/file/tevobotusajukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caudafotografia.com/userfiles/files/tawenejonuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e72c251e9---36126099283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895558b0996---jufetirabasopifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c40aef0a466---nodosegudoxinifetarepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/minukit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yemany.com/yemfiles/files/20924939053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijmscr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fafuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuocnam.xyz/images/files/5988332170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/111686851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wib24-admin.de/uploads/file/75544539388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72e73221a0---96504291329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c994d10788---3849807460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usagimatur.com/files/others/semipelanisuviriwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slesnick.net/userfiles/files/29715169816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966b8b6b1a6---51154785408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayinmaunhat.com/upload/files/71942102178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+survival+test+play+onlinePDF 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_off0000dbc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC0 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 7745a022b5fa20c3489442c94670f0e1b5ed452b2759ab8cd5c219b58f1509cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A6 16320 bytes
SHA-256: 77ef335bb263f71ede82ed6fe4fe1ebe8f9b5832ca6101865251e84d54e67689
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1