Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e582497c73d79ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-26 13:09:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 988ddfdb20071dc3944b273c91688b82 SHA-1: 08e44e2cc342cbb42fee067b560a548fd975b2b5 SHA-256: 7e582497c73d79ececebfafcaf73ed0b12f480f1e74d27c3856ba4d878db1307
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically phishing or trojan activity. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious PDFs on compromised infrastructure is a significant indicator of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bbd2884ac0---42649383571.pdf
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e9deb3b12---gajofiwisapexeget.pdf
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202109120829371665.pdf
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/831b57e4d92816855977391deb651d06/xewomiwasegojodepijasu.pdf
    • http://kant21.com/userData/board/file/lavomofekanukimegiloli.pdf
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/gufozivukatok.pdf
    • http://nepodoshlo.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3020476289.pdf
    • https://isosklo.cz/uploads/rujarokiroz.pdf
    • https://namhunglogistic.vn/site/files/galebazoviwatebekajav.pdf
    • http://kaizenlife.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85409224629.pdf
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ce7cd647ce---52949650399.pdf
    • https://drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/23769116397.pdf
    • https://buzascsaba.hu/userFiles/file/96076348541.pdf
    • http://axi-hohenstein.de/userfiles/file/dazemupox.pdf
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a224c571b3fcb96f961e9a1b75f38a5/tonibuzekigatemuk.pdf
    • https://nezrenweb.com/calisma2/files/uploads/8512235971.pdf
    • https://afmiletisim.com/resimler/files/67003432801.pdf
    • http://petrduchek.com/files/sarovema.pdf
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d722f58b5c---32816269369.pdf
    • https://posaonakosovu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nofewurujireki.pdf
    • https://enerjimakine.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/seluriru.pdf
    • https://chiuman-hk.com/images/file/puzibul.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=torch+light+apps+download
    • 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_off0000b366.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB366 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb7d.bin
0c409253b85d5727c2190287094f7fabf6235621238e66e5f3cc26ea3d9cd079
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB7D 10708 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e3e1.bin
8742e99510bd3a97815e1aeed515cf0e04b493d1e5fa6464a3241777766a90b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3E1 17800 bytes