Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e7e6143cb37b17c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 18:17:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6b00ab9686cdbc4bf69cfe56a1c40956 SHA-1: 95bd41ffc2a61cd9b6a1b6ecf6eb6ba024b5a805 SHA-256: 0e7e6143cb37b17c81ecebe16f6bb2e0a8cc4f05f105c565ca8524f129e29024
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, hosting numerous links on compromised WordPress sites, likely to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

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 http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9c5ce0694---99615120693.pdf
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r2ene1sq8m3m5uk4gm19sahq3i/8442513015.pdf
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747e740e6a0---66530735769.pdf
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/194602441b72857412e50d79bf5ec9bf/7302208608.pdf
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf696945a70---sesadu.pdf
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609fb211dce0f---setak.pdf
    • http://martonaroniskola.net/userfiles/file/najamotatepo.pdf
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/51637076059.pdf
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a007d47ffa0---97766454649.pdf
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082deca4d2b1---sanoleruduv.pdf
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9a2dkqfuab8jobjjm2j3orqnr/63083183921.pdf
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/dologorirevifowiz.pdf
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4b11d543b---63097048322.pdf
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210523080215_s344uy.pdf
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/zapepojedojopiraxo.pdf
    • https://itexpertdog.com/upload/files/pefesibopebewopopoto.pdf
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mpb2ldghbu1jifg1dor57errl1/pideseroxojavineziraful.pdf
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-3/20210503111957215708.pdf
    • http://xn--k1akb4c.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/68718415352.pdf
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8dc791bbd---rejokubojuwakanujusumu.pdf
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/77846878074.pdf
    • http://susutour.com/userfile/file/notapi.pdf
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b5da8ca33---seloduvikivosewowufuwa.pdf
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609478ef7ab15---36299292390.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=music+codes+for+brookhaven+2021
    • 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_off0000ed10.bin
91c508f6ef298cad3df0d3591c027fa9a2b26ad429c277e2842d0abad4807035
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED10 11112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001070a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1070A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011f1c.bin
3dbfb236d6d3ad57938ba3c7138f4f777e00d97b12868b20c8c737cc38e17839
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F1C 17372 bytes