Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2e6f4c16f906491…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-23 05:23:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5508ad1bbcea67ae16e91e96fe75ee47 SHA-1: e8f16978151f2ed86e3c43affe2d0df19979aff4 SHA-256: e2e6f4c16f906491f2ba5c08a549a8030625550dc95cda62f8cf6fdee8f013f7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, despite some being marked benign, contribute to the overall pattern of directing users to potentially harmful external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/63475974916.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161450453b18a0---xanusenawaladiduxasufore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liga-stf.ru/i/upload/files/tenopuxulejug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsitecomvn.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/46032413262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/tefekavikumovojunudeguvuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copyjokertw.aw6.tw/uploadfile/qu4_qu106_com/files/nirowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iknow.pl/files/file/66885651740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mkcjeu161ba24fikkaqg9ur307/sabomikenixiwuwumazixerav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelifelesson.net/home/tappingchanges/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66318548562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rigdrilling.org/userfiles/file/kenovovup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lodoshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/62816228912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/pivokider.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatoodesign.com/userfiles/files/tumibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leise.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wexasumuweza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/telogajazeragiwakuponawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vadihosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wosigoxekibor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grancom.by/upload/docs/rarubixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbndn5at.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/72644014424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22978777870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapuridiocese.com/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/77715764586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fabdf7cd80581a8f057af47da805fbf0/25600649855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nusamulticentralestari.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/wosoletaxonezenosuvider.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smobiil.eu/userfiles/files/vewovupulugedegedenedoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12130950172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=whatsapp+message+tone+mp3+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://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_off0000cb14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB14 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e326.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE326 18364 bytes
SHA-256: 752bff81657fd5965af07550ea4b156474a5ab63a550e4a8cf8bbbffa64c68ca
font_02_sfnt_off00011301.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11301 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 47c5ba5f3022f32ddcc23df907148f7c2f76806ddf028827d766097920224334