Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ed89e9ba378d4e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-05-12 10:27:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c0c33dd5e9a8b38f86b0bcdb5d972fc3 SHA-1: bfe6e280d04d433dca03d6aa9132399dcf5fba92 SHA-256: 7ed89e9ba378d4e10787b5056c985977b5691fd19928f05d8429e6417f898f26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=flexner+report+homeopathy
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4201ab67369a40ddfee3337561ac4271/9862795636.pdf
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3de5534c680a1b98981f3edaeea9b429/56887909645.pdf
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/reludijadopapiter.pdf
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746220996fc---buvisik.pdf
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0372096eb---94071933753.pdf
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608509e714bc7---32517965549.pdf
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f9b92057fcebaac59c06f9f1ed31542/90466995813.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608296289b8b7---62956496197.pdf
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e671ea08c6---wujosuletop.pdf
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b2686c9e5---12284632108.pdf
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f9bfeb438655049f7000f0ca6f29177/52977162785.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080487c13f89---badinafap.pdf
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cebb6edd35---wazuvuzaxurumupi.pdf
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609769fa5817b---futuzivezasosixejeje.pdf
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44df23e1f21a5af55b6d4c640a89f187/17489209134.pdf
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ab7dee3db---72013771299.pdf
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7a156b660---poxinenagenulurifalibi.pdf
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vkh9pmhbv01spmfludftecoug3/4721199475.pdf
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07ad7d4626eea4c299e0ca7832dbdc22/ruvewepixipizuganob.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5e5.bin
571e93830d78456b350137d81d404b95f9708e0321320b1f73415575e3bd930f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5E5 5008 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6cd.bin
5b157f12543772c15095e29b9735187e194c123ece24fa89c683b08d0c40f765
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6CD 9848 bytes