Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2fdd06a7a7e6071…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-08-10 21:10:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: dfdf8d8f2c1500e88a24131ddea94a55 SHA-1: 9168f0e00642cbb36cda8791c26f107324b3b941 SHA-256: e2fdd06a7a7e607111766bba357664f6d4fadecf6765da74518b27a566769a18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL analysis point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://masini-de-ambalat.ro/images/userfiles/36485436600.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aaab62b791ab2097400bb483b1fe54a/buboli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4730268c5e945f20ad4e4d3f07357aca/lixufogavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074596bca8d6---12839252989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd1e700bef---59610648196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medprobr.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0399c428deef91978b06912e8645e6fb/11402745228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportuna.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17879522496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vresponse.net/userfiles/file/5552785838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6bb9d1e60---lokojun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilimall.ae/uploads/files/30517420361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivotal-technologies.com/userfiles/file/miwawogokapexuxetafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/pepuxumonadez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/576c86442d4f0b391c07f85d0cdd858d/rekunuwevaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f912bec3d---birilidumukixuxinoworukem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f351e60b2cc---63899747525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.com/contents//files/magerod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-midas.ro/files/file/ruvatezapuneponiborewezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globaltruthmediagroup.com/clients/a/aa/aa8380eac451876ae6ab993bf3a720d6/File/pizaditatikufulop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghebinhduong.com/media/ftp/file/jusavuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents//files/dufesukidena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herculesestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/47795194767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be62dc74b38---42397527446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=archaeological+sources+of+indian+history+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://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_off000100ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100EA 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 58cc9b91310de5296e84b4e007ada21c6b9a01876795ddd5b5d02d849af02b72
font_01_sfnt_off00011a8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A8F 17424 bytes
SHA-256: ae46179b7964e537683268643c6177e4b59ea0912af2222a7760ca831287d43f
font_02_sfnt_off0001470a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1470A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1