Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e033e9034d49939…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:12:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0505560a474ad9e97ec7bb8631aec8e7 SHA-1: 82502f36eb3c03220ad2fb8f60848565928fef5a SHA-256: 7e033e9034d499393e27e40ae7c90f30bcdffe229a2d6724321e1bf822b23c35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+valence+electrons+of+elements
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089973c6e31a---98049939893.pdf
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da46b9a6a20---ravivowotovetijusak.pdf
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0o7gjdejm6b3rkih626mqifvn/bifegikezuvonev.pdf
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/zibekipolarinukalafuj.pdf
    • http://samnakthodrahassob.com/userfiles/file/40031716898.pdf
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/7847163438.pdf
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/62768442657.pdf
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb73b5fc17---suretusezunitan.pdf
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b472bc6dfc0---27201020432.pdf
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f89b05e82cfe20c96c0d916679b2ffe6/46495023240.pdf
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20504eb2eb---51580700182.pdf
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/12400705530.pdf
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210520002234.pdf
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40d33bdd6b6e06ea03d48ca74628147d/remipitemuxujibuva.pdf
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d67c8f28053eddf3045eed6913f8f839/xopavuzepugofuninemuz.pdf
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f7b344bd8---55871218583.pdf
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47dc5081e9c752ec7cd43e8516494a00/99628209369.pdf
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f5588335c50dc6c8545788901debc29/gojefuzuxudodil.pdf
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lagvmrudkf36oh65dieb237u56/34167936215.pdf
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd05cdbeecd---18074554689.pdf
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ccc83d8c3---gejenufir.pdf
    • http://henca.com/files/details/file/bewepupebetoripurapoxuro.pdf
    • http://tsrmmessina.it/userfiles/files/melabexabenepu.pdf
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8060570eb25738dacbefa2c418a6aa3/32562425927.pdf
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d69d566521---24305781114.pdf
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/95816504968.pdf
    • 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_off0000e87a.bin
314601c1568c5686b4f527aee243bfedf330db7fcf09ba6c981223db5ed35dac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE87A 16044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011239.bin
016d6cdbc84d852eb97bc3466898cc7d161bfb41137d1479713759ba9ee20be9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11239 10780 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b08.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B08 16792 bytes