Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2f03637b6c3f9b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:18:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 9520aa206684f6fa2a97b51f742d4a93 SHA-1: 8b4edb98b29e73c2ade7b7771bca467088facb4a SHA-256: e2f03637b6c3f9b6fc92227d9ebf7f5f4fd04ccfc337781d63c1a89c9d073996
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content but reinforcing the malicious nature indicated by the heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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 https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1de5313c80399315ddadaf7d19852b6/42102377524.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bestbelly.org/content/files/files/viromodoleta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e5cb7a3f3---jupezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/mifabibep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f67d9956abf699496c27f40904993fc/putipexup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.pl/galeria/file/5891751390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/84948749970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c408aed25---11684843364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/39492339717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///67281723983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/fupapomiwazovekawejevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floresdeserrezuela.com/aym_image/files/61431416465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb6afcb0fb8---senurupepafozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/2860013249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/dalawapiridamabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/42283210782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlinairnv.be/userfiles/file/libivanowawuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomiccm.com/userfiles/files/95023901219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da6810c91d0---55155681138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a77e72263---nelisunemarupeligup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611638527904b---2148189753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c467a43cc64---63546822437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oishisushigd.com/uploads/files/88176055886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114ad7301ae7---nifanajinafaxozusuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/46516666390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=xerox+phaser+3635mfp+service+repair+manual+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_off0000d824.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD824 17452 bytes
SHA-256: 3552949d43b13d2ef2139ff8be35ea36a41e8d72da3933a3af40dd7a7fb59ebc
font_01_sfnt_off0001050c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1050C 11624 bytes
SHA-256: 41dbdd2e53a8e3363ed86df151e47885fa9b538808fbc37edfd0ff51f3f87153
font_02_sfnt_off0001208b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1208B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1