Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2d6ba110e78c143…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-08-13 20:29:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9e2a9ac50ac308355559d4e374904f1b SHA-1: 0c2d540a5468e5f4b64d261f40ce1be203034a36 SHA-256: e2d6ba110e78c1433c7a25a6bfcd534f77c5a92c156ecc445a14960c466951e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm with numerous URLs, several of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or redirecting users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/43118362987.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sakem.org/userfiles/files/fetevutosisikalavidelexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drisraadentalcenter.com/userfiles/file/nivanupag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46cc0c64c5d42d779db76a86ba3462c3/zikejobelidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piau-po21inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/9691026761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rodolphe-blanchet.fr/Rodolphe/fckeditor/file/75389991160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n36kcaiu3ja6jn7kiu2q9btoeb/75104091672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/266oq1hgohicngnqfdrcjbim38/91845362611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/mifobewefepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5593mgvc4s569k5s0tjqn45ai/1069609885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/30461357282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607352bd9dbeb---59055404389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af5bb785c1a---mofenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angel-juicer.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210720_34A68DFC23C5BC94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9b452c6b50f8f727fc3f965c983b93b/90592466895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc0ad698d8e---zerutariwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9435cb8ab---693488081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb6c4bce1c---661233174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82344429435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcc95ea79116915d82605a0d98648b30/ditowujeduzavekezifugigod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aaa400cb5b---18817984626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/49024655785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/sagufaxofiniporonumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domplus.su/userfiles/files/kovawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+atom+worksheet+answers+stephen+murrayPDF 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_off0000c66a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC66A 16160 bytes
SHA-256: 2d284d5aa5aa73da9a3c43575abc8fc5d6ad263f1ba4f89f5bf0343a7c116e4d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f02e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02E 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 4d0d9eaac898cba5815b66eb9fe8504a5100a7eaca9eb61b97b9acd80fbd58f6
font_02_sfnt_off000108ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1