Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 001eb7fa844e3703…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:22:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 2f70f83cab6d14e3a5e5cf1b01cab478 SHA-1: fac7d62bea5e2480c9bfaed902ba3a7dd67b3caf SHA-256: 001eb7fa844e37032d57519931a2d2f6f6c22bc7943f2b5d7142e9c309717915
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure of downloading additional malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073041a4d14d---45173105786.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saipanbooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210624_4E583AE901DF6184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608853fb446ee---86922661372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fp5tcsc06qekqqn4k0vt5at5h/80227572115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/suluvoxarawaxobubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/tiritubufevarojalojikon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/61495316056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edelstar-mos.ru/files/sojinitusoxajewide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aakritidigitals.com/userfiles/files/puvagubomisujosanukinoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/nizipotofoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30e38da9811ed22b47ddd7d8e45980c2/wasubisasasep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6b16550212cac2d4dfad9365112560b/15140741235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/fuxumijasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/7016453421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c830d71492791b3857363ad93434d5aa/misulojado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc7f1851773716fe3b67b016d5d7b86d/28880102075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/99868245190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/36763292225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtuozi.ru/sites/all/sites/virtuozi.ru/files/58362769014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cloud-tutors.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49de98d1534baa1ac17d435316eabebb/53434682641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5676af7ba743a54126f47c8da2a29e0a/pugedaxixujepavituxobaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bretagne.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kilotijidozodoboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=moving+to+australia+checklist+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_off00011a47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A47 19320 bytes
SHA-256: ef1ca95cd5a0fa6b91243e3e666ec352a8dd59b00cdfd65a2637cd0a0d81e81e
font_01_sfnt_off00014cb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CB1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000164c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x164C8 11148 bytes
SHA-256: a3207201148cd6777c007a034cfd7a27c12a068459c7de09ac15b61b4b50ea3b