Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2d2b819f11827d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 09:46:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 24d93731a191a61c66bd61fbde8f88c3 SHA-1: 9a5766812e28ca971252ab3e558e0a301c4caabb SHA-256: e2d2b819f11827d786a294d7867b5f8330c70462e9f414d3d3634d764e98bcc2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous external links, including those hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The 'SE_ENABLE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to enable macros or editing, a common tactic to bypass security measures and download a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=layne+water+well+drilling PDF link annotation
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/zukef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c12fe8bc0156d8560ddb40feaf365473/78157465292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/duvadujuzefas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0cfb1725b3---16143486796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/66964523015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886e16d6be8---39428527267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b56c9369a8ba0c8e0d7f52f7f09d489d/bajapibojedodafomoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/868e966e4ffcff63d33c928ab625bd48/57647570293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859d9520aeb---35263874306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9913f52b12711a9bb042ae4057663bdf/pajarofusidanepamere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/93248766118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/9427989191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/29822951018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b88c7faffe1fe677830d927627796c95/nuxalakigelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867fca8100b---dupojopasatorasibeneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1962.com/clients/f/f2/f245580d3072b78cda2271cf7a7e3f61/File/9428829166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e1a3ae953---45014316171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b387b6bb67c88ac4c931a42a45035e4d/75203481464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/1884717038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c40b5aab227---zakoxupuvinit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b50dc043f---3409676015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c6a946a91---59671780661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010862.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10862 17820 bytes
SHA-256: 9c7fa15b6ca986ef7cff538ed00e5318f96ec4dcbcf396b13cad330497d4ef69
font_01_sfnt_off00013782.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13782 10292 bytes
SHA-256: a692fe1a97aa269a48a4082f270f3d411851eafc6b0e3aa5858c89f0278ccdee
font_02_sfnt_off00014e93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1