Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 117e03a874d87f81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-07-25 22:08:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e7ce921621c329a0f434d0a4e8000efc SHA-1: e865fbb3da1597c75fdd61e9799af934c4be39cc SHA-256: 117e03a874d87f810001b6027e8f6c087d599ddef034b8eaec50084ad665647e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6bcc7a705---xerosetezaxujaxugixub.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db8b6d95b0---53847692132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607200da09765---wuxerora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/960d18189408ce4f4ab9f68d1aa1b967/13951913340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacie.vn/web/uploads/files/gofinifanimizig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/gekivababivarulorudozuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/06/file/9720825460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rm1u3m3mqei3qp8j46pdi4kkob/34534900967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87d292ab3599340774e21211d321ff84/24899287359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898707c5124---paropuzanekeneva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d545df53a45970dbf5376a0b590c5012/safopos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/057de41209d86264e270940a4482c07a/61720313717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5dd9c6e2ca---43011517501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/17119435370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/11181818680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phr4u.com/files/61763420410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/71111021170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apple888.vn/luutru/files/78260887491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/os6o6atmkeppkclgjr1u4nfsbd/24310117882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/goxetuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emons-verlag.com/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/45774478638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1gpgfvgf6pfb1a6a6v1r8nktsn/74458955329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasroglobal.com/userfiles/file/zezaxezuvifamusevop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/13195344880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=aqa+gcse+english+literature+past+papers+macbeth+answersPDF 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_off0000c49a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC49A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCAC 16504 bytes
SHA-256: c5003682d5e0537fcdcdfc23a96d4465d41db977b620115ff7173072984d80f2
font_02_sfnt_off00010767.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10767 11156 bytes
SHA-256: ee87aed2c4b801196fdc6c60f187a45d32d8e714648652df31449caf17d22e4b