Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7031bea095dea83a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-08-18 06:16:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b32964cbc4bee7f27959961a53abbfe2 SHA-1: 09a20fe37a89b935338914d8e7641996262e7b9e SHA-256: 7031bea095dea83acc344e325d918860098cbef09e6d4c1c1b24d7e7888a13b2
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains to download further payloads, disguised as invoices or payment requests. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=madras+university+arrear+exam+2021+hall+ticket PDF link annotation
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/jogakumemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768376e3b38---56497084723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/kurakiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szguilong.com/userfiles/files/gojufolugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608369f37c1cc---fidutogufaxifewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/wumasomobosemuturaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xycrusher.com/d/files/dapiwikavukuzaxogejexefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techielingo.com/fck_uploads/files/53272288488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijntherapie.be/uploads/files/48923682136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6f7fc986fc---99737717716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073045f0e04b---95342316569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9kqflbr1h3cu07lf7cur57cj15/61262683225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsradviseurs.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/44769470990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnik.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/totixatafoxifixipajuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidelishospice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/womuxubalexukegubomof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d781da7e7040cd3c49945ec11811083/89250579226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b5n7ccd171bjo6requid16c2h/ledewisok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/jokokuzezelakixuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/6798175737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vavum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41541bcea8019966b436ba8a604bd9de/28983702697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ef81f5a524da7e1b55369e74159a49b/14844631525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murderescape.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f282e0b35c2051c0780d755e1446ff10/mamanonuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e21e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE21E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA35 11276 bytes
SHA-256: df6a6bf5ae27bf015930239bbe7ec31b42b4206b9373989a795fb1bdf4b7fbed
font_02_sfnt_off000114a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114A4 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 70cd95d5984b39212fe3edc57596e319f75ed0af6b5d9949d94f3bf406792949