Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2ddfaa9d7a0fe79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:31:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f2d15e7303feca965da4f57402a556f9 SHA-1: 060047cec96b3897ed154659eca1e399b928764a SHA-256: e2ddfaa9d7a0fe79188a14f821985f6084219bb624b919a2d1a5b3847b440a27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malware or divulging sensitive information. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting reinforces the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/td4fa4imf5jkadup2i8do3lcs4/73152780203.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/59128318834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eda6e3b5dc0---12530375066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48fd8e711dcb506e1c3b118c856b73f5/navegofanusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28210448333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160973944d69b9---50985623154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/20667426906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5639e16180e18507f779bf6cf8a2cf23/molevupupaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fudeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamilannuaire.com/var/www/vhosts/vps296430.ovh.net/tamilannuaire.com/images/file/56445757964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://griesvoegwerken.nl/UserFiles/file/kajomubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03108db9e93b58052d5cd192e4b5b786/63544074275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfbeeb45016a214a64b4260ecc9b33c5/14655006746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-ned.com/uploads/files/55707787087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e59d815646b---12457362198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8185dd9740d44be3bafffca8ca91d634/notarekavapoduxopaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoop-tech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jelakarufuxokoluvoseme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/dapawojefiwowuxanapikopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/rawuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/mopexekosepuzojowebape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a6a4a0329---75990657515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.pl/upload/68462424595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa2687439bffa70c1565d885a4f75256/numexuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba6319c654ae29fdc00a28d75f08e7d6/36481353644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a796cde3812---wabifawabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/11414218492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f1cb7a384---78992068331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d3h4igv1m67h8l34c6bejmof6/71072504008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=social+entrepreneurship+literature+review+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_off0000c089.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC089 15672 bytes
SHA-256: 13d60f8e33d5d01856ffaa8149dc13b5c412a2703b4c31a3add7a859748b27e3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE707 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF1E 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 5930321f2a058f224555ab20bef8acf02c2f2b811fbe369fcff6317ff7ae68bf