Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2e9d96480053fef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:19:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e7e56c6df77da638ae48ef3e9da90faa SHA-1: 26f6303b571aed8448166727eec6b7c8cc3b7cf3 SHA-256: e2e9d96480053fef7db894a8cc805e67dd7096b0c38deb997aa4cddd35c87bf5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5bffaf798---16023104814.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fup92m96kb52r4vcablq337ol/57482753236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8ec076a220---78896336454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotellemaritime.com/hotel/upload/files/davezoninubujowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/46783788225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dd6e63a56983eb4d889676331815e16/66632340231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47162afadf---dijen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bca0c3bd294170ad59c4fe45fcda52c7/94414327845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/46388143463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a709e94aa0fbe197366e017daa4a175/wusobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.vn/media/ftp/file/mebosuroveko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/wexat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/tabumupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d34bc54015---tozazazaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074030a9fee3---xuzovukenuposopopob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/34152174087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--22ck6bdp5cach0mc23a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jesizemixujapefudope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/kuzexetiwuwavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc88b8c87e---55844569249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/durikukemowenakefefox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/zopedokabojerituwovid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f34699ef81---suledarilujubixetujiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a04d219472---40314212047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka54.ru/upload/m/dababoxipakevowimepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85bd651b798b044a052e76f1cac74d7f/50430877428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=national+service+alliancePDF 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_off0000f2eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2EB 18124 bytes
SHA-256: 4f860f7957b4bd408e2599fe1daef126e4e3e02fad859b40e5c9893a26938ea6
font_01_sfnt_off000122e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E8 10268 bytes
SHA-256: 204f94751b41700a2728f75ed05bec2b02c87237daeb56c8d42352b40f5030c7
font_02_sfnt_off00013a33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1