Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2f42bdf95bb2a2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-05-07 09:28:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f485ab949ea68d479d7dfdb7272ddb04 SHA-1: fbe9952e95979c1c3f87df0748829218f0299fe1 SHA-256: e2f42bdf95bb2a2a1c3221b266441c76de830d02ffd17be0719ade0d53b21d65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to educational material ('cellular respiration review worksheet pdf'). The presence of numerous links to PDFs hosted on various domains, many of which are likely compromised, indicates an attempt to distribute further malicious content.

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://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8c668a4be72e556586c3fe956e9940a/fupuwow.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc1b3d07a3eae132a8d1cc83c7a3f0e8/xeliwexadotuxiganakosuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770df973c0c---14769204646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b9b0e1037---rozewerexavajeroxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608291a052de2---zajorubegaxafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/62196697869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/mipegemidifimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608902b656ece---44612677163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c1196516bde071abf239c546e5cf1f0/rejor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f2a4ee45537ee0096b09fff5b718b75/86090234714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95c75b99d352119bfdc957a3e67707af/kusivod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15f325adbda1088b93f5ec2b35bc8f0b/tunenobobobitejosemeleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e19f2ef90f---52155698441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607136094dd19---jozudesigoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bbcd4334d1b6c6303dd4bb572adab17/34750356718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d74b8982f0---38890031153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5lq2mqgg9l9fnl3gqbrelc17s/10145063676.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/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=cellular+respiration+review+worksheet+pdfPDF 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_off0000d1f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1F5 5252 bytes
SHA-256: c4af783604cbb4123371dd2ecdb48f6fdf0e255c06c2ed73d3c7a34243eb946d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3DD 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 74047311c6aa937ad1f8f20c2ba1260613f9facad2b9bbdd9c50ef1da619a3c3