Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2f3cb60d87702a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-10 04:13:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2495d9df8bd39b95dcc90b1402ab624d SHA-1: f0186112d733c769081293ee0c6b92a0e951f40f SHA-256: e2f3cb60d87702a4a6d5105622a2a56fe1023fc82ee30a235f67bc394b2413e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document's structure and embedded links suggest it's designed to lure users into clicking through to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/tijilemonegufisigunato.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363e799a1e8---80041998056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roletyhanarol.pl/files/file/32162993203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luatsubienhoa.com/upload/ck/files/40409674601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurau.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/rikejofesarununedutuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tgvl.in/uploads/fck/files/gazugarakigiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a91824c60d---towana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0f3fbb69dc8d248300b876a737e8645/62272030077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balade-pierry.fr/userfiles/file/71413072616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signatureshreyas.in/userfiles/file/nofizinugukugizogabuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/maregudasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjpexport.com/files/31297673044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://77owship.netsociality.com/upload/files/nifovegowijanafegagid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://life-homeshop.com/asset/uploads/files/ledijogajirojeliwofixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/didixakiximawaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ego-sofa.tw/uploads/files/202109050605225461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oev0a9of6fer786jcqkiqm2nl9/bopavane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delve-cr.com/uploads/88800034036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vettercycles.ch/userfiles/files/51450722162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiemtoandongnghi.com/public/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76515726440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbcostaverde.it/userfiles/file/napitenuzuvexafodafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clinicaepilepsia.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8252258564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=import+pictures+from+android+to+iphonePDF 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_off0000cf6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF6A 17432 bytes
SHA-256: 6933daf6627b2f282620de9a542d4ced0e6680c1fbb983b034dfa47c1930f90f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC53 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001146a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1146A 10892 bytes
SHA-256: df2d3edd6ab77a876ef4db7322797c97e6026754e65913857a7d8c4e3dd1c685