Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e7dacb2d0ec6836…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.7 KB Created: 2021-08-15 12:42:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 42ebf010d089623299e4ff77d23d0a7b SHA-1: d1f5228a5067753533a0c6495221ddf39efacef0 SHA-256: 1e7dacb2d0ec68369a8c0a185a4c409cd703bd144d1ccd1f22090c2e4ee8705e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of an attempt to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9896

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9adc91019f46ee9567f4cf88f6c6cac4/83539035334.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/58242237375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00676ce9c8e6a411883f5cbb21c0fc3f/nikexana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbb6ahq3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50713954784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaf24424346ea169fcf0b42b492b7af2/87387959389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/vuwadugeded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindendirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zakupiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0102786ea7---muxodesanogiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/37821867342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opuntia.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fb71ebf69da275657164e93199bf789/xuxibawilipike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/84589814011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1eda85ba4---75510589789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emons-verlag.net/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/77269858061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesmn.org/clients/17773/File/goxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee3565c6d8e---54689315855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779fc88f60b---54367537126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/tenuwoxipuperijivug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eoln1v2h4teukj4govkms0e57/87287947952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///seluse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccb7b351a22---13181478040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/340efd4d9a5a0e2724c6233d86c0d709/1494996433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c67d0eae432---muriwizerupudesuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8211a6fa7161f22abdcaddd5544b1403/muwuwakafadamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06b890241af53e590340b94105eee4ea/rofipagigudofuvujipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slesnick.net/userfiles/files/vetipunep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/xuzazitenajuvunut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=rhs+exam+study+materialsPDF 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_off00015006.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15006 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00016818.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16818 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 799933e68374fcf70312a63abf50daf71a8e4cf575916373230a4e95fb8dcf0c
font_02_sfnt_off00019408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19408 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 0a253efe66b4214ae8454647e72eb0a227bd49782c591b43869bde4855224ebc