Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e7aafa569fd0482…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 07:53:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ef1005e3a9feaa437fde38769fe26dde SHA-1: f688788178ec3d9627c04bcd9e6f69134599a222 SHA-256: 0e7aafa569fd0482ffd108db69c9c207022c269a0403d62e9743e17f3a5a5a47
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or hosting malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac8c95dd3eab4bdbeea6f133797926c5/tegabatilukugawupoje.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/mefuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cubic.is/userfiles/file/11595371309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bb12688b5---45372926203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1d3ff7e8a0---49256004139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanomanberjaya.com/contents//files/pijijukapukumobasubukelew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cb65c65d9a84885ea3b3fc4acbe5773/toritiminib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalenzyme.com/uploads/fckupload/file/73122694804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6mlj7f4f1bgliv9ghn64r4hk5/muwaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pr0jeu28h3rm0rhv20seojtfn2/493172464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a03384a77c---95387166040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14e0765ee08dfaa0c7a634e7633664bc/42411224107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609648321770a---16329619040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c3209d419---nevotajibibixobolaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609963285a11f---52871250977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avistravel.ro/userfiles/file/49815577940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/21922040147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/tigogutepamugagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6719656be---dozowefojefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/95217972685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/57064771117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/31784287812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756e146a6c7---61850976719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/baredafojakiboritune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puntoagricoltura.it/file/mixidojulufifagemofomima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=the+meaning+of+ironicPDF 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_off00010148.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10148 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 652e6eeedf0cc78b796de7a0671925eba6b4b7f557e8a19c153de94842cce7a0
font_01_sfnt_off000118b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130C5 17592 bytes
SHA-256: bb35b66df47970808c87e0653125bbf7fffde1e454ceb6034150e59cb8027179