Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2fcd41d398ddb78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 16:37:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6ac54fdcb5222b580f4519f320675080 SHA-1: bceb1556fbf95cb3d688c8c69a40f65971cae1df SHA-256: e2fcd41d398ddb78b0e07f95a813130ff6034f73fed1267075aa769010c8083c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous URLs point towards an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kuhnel+differential+geometry+pdf
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/purasini.pdf
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eddb61d8c3---2236668369.pdf
    • https://fleschimmo.lu/userfiles/files/77817554092.pdf
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4915f396db6249e2ca25c5c3bfe973d2/70992630165.pdf
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607235797cd72---7989178851.pdf
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a17ef0fde2---jiwesulufupunagofaf.pdf
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/11185325966.pdf
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607126dad7331---bipowebujejex.pdf
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f93d7b2f56---bojavej.pdf
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6pp3ijhmtsi0umkdq5v567l67/95332407504.pdf
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20624880732.pdf
    • http://hosungtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210601_39116C1030A9EA1B.pdf
    • http://obchodsezlatem.cz/upload/files/47776236467.pdf
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6487c1455a9cb90d8aa93b8c42d508c/zifexesadasokem.pdf
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/wuwokunefofekol.pdf
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a0de1dacd---wisamaga.pdf
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/bejojilijubofe.pdf
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f4cde8c5cdb0926b8dfd30a48903076/palajaravijatabubawu.pdf
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8669753244.pdf
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b19b2f5878a2ff521ac4d8fca2b13d4/42220919619.pdf
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/wonavilemalov.pdf
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/382fef88846a41c9dba43ccf79db1463/lavibufuvojuwozesitajev.pdf
    • http://carsongrad75.com/clients/3/35/35717660c32d3dd9b0ffde8f33a19d23/File/52690187257.pdf
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d528ab85c---31626595111.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eec6.bin
42c15dcdfceeee19b075e7099f4d043ff792724ee6df6d0470f901bb9b8db36c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC6 16472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011977.bin
0dc7ecba599f5636f9fe575ec6545122d84a5feba98a673d876b896f674128c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11977 10980 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013283.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13283 16792 bytes