Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2e11be4499f033d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.8 KB Created: 2021-05-25 00:01:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8b5ff53acb8b8b95ab55f05ca1660322 SHA-1: d7e638edc66eec711ac1b76b9fcf04ceb18daf55 SHA-256: e2e11be4499f033da83ec3683d37c9bc40098334bc7e82f0baeb37ea31150b62
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'Tony Robbins awaken the giant within audiobook download', likely a phishing or scam attempt to drive traffic to these malicious hosts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qnk0qnf31udobmghqu23cr52us/fizaxenagokubazimerefofid.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34e9eff54688f5254bd4151e4df21f91/75535882880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9gl3uk0mvf9sn4qoodugjpii0/37586860818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f0c586f442ad90ed9bcac28ea0ae7df/wumimarojezoloxokonezoxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mev0pk9smt9n48tjr99jng0kl2/lofaviwuzis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/063dab0794fefe91384229c0b11f23a7/kerilapama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3d198317da081557f1d9210e2f4a44d/nokixowolug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed647639fc026a774bba0c9d87bdf2ad/28969953020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ps5svnsnpt5e4roa3jq66fkh05/basidatozufeladokid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/63896095359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finances-canada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95fc2b1cb136c49951e65b3237c5ecbb/xodulujatuvoroleduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a83d5bb117cdf6893d62e2c25fb2cec3/3455675341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/kutemumagigijado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/11342931747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/062c46691078ec1cd088fb84c05b4878/91523662345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4282965f74a63d12245ff6745a84731/19199637135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bafffe8694---wasajimuvojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076790b65e63---jabiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=tony+robbins+awaken+the+giant+within+audiobook+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c7c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7C3 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 735f023faf346d07d2905ae12e825491a58ba891cada64679924d08ef2c72ae2
font_01_sfnt_off0000da4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA4E 10708 bytes
SHA-256: ef29c89602b98e36607d519f6a9f13a352a539e4ac2c2ef57b7d34e144101e4a