Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e2dc4c0f51d9dbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-08 04:57:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ec520deeb8f8594e93a84bde870a56f5 SHA-1: 7a257ed498d9d7aca28a8727464f18949c6533fb SHA-256: 7e2dc4c0f51d9dbfc4af0df71c26d2256c819e8edce04eb8fd6b9d4c2967f73b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL heuristics and AV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+one+pdf+file+of+multiple+pages
    • https://virtualpulse.eu/UserFiles/file/xofigefitewemizegil.pdf
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3bf1sr47qo8rh4dl3l3ujgcgn/tufofamusanagivasadozozep.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/111f6e9335be2215f888f26345474957/fusukubufixakejif.pdf
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/4074304782.pdf
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c99a6c4662c---57675795459.pdf
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859e17a2304---nodovagusugipegisofif.pdf
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/mavijezikijulozubofa.pdf
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/vadarubomikopif.pdf
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e70683e1b---22949226119.pdf
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15348843246.pdf
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0soglfrh6kkuvsg8ahb1j9g53/68721444742.pdf
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/vigogagaduxovedegamubej.pdf
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d2khaafggbb9q6nq2v5n8l7sv/60535088126.pdf
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a06dc56d89---20903618130.pdf
    • http://umffz21.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sevizupibefanovaziwaki.pdf
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8f08b7bd0dbda7dfd423da4f3262c4c/22497335835.pdf
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/fokadapusabilobalopa.pdf
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0261107001621537788.pdf
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a440fbcf5c0---wukupe.pdf
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/fokuloloridabibanojuz.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56443830824.pdf
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/29193306081.pdf
    • http://johnsonsdynastyincfamilyassociation.com/clients/10108/File/teludijo.pdf
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d83afcbad44145487b3050e3c3787ca5/42021944990.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_off0000ea5a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA5A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001026c.bin
1abc7e9c6dd57cd9536d84aac5f38d5ef35db6bd3a84b033daf6fee5a1b8ef9f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1026C 17096 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f70.bin
cd9a332f3458c0ba57d958de9b9ed98244dd9cedf0b485f6586527e3d9e8312b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F70 11008 bytes