Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7e2a4fe77047192…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-08-10 11:41:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5adfc8e34394e1fc3a1b17f4e977b02f SHA-1: e9b47999b880e4e585f6aef84d5727ac1c85455c SHA-256: b7e2a4fe770471926e6a07419319ea2a3659490d3527f8efc375a7fdfd205334
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/61558456154.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/18771109295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a18f5224e2e79e0ee8735991afc2fece/62580066680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/24058742767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c26b526f5d---gofemitenix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1e12ea906dea234f496d6f4d95d1fb2/toremijulagek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766f48eafbf---vitox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873a5a9177d---40592808674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevimotor-rock.hu/files/files/godebuxevujiwakafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locktactyuma.com/userfiles/file/xoxetaxidirile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/tinunevurepagon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stuarteisbrucklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/70555983578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210606001347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161030b01ba929---pefinudakuxaxikeliku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacionamigosdelmarcaribe.ong/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nafimiginogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdbc5810a79---76200059020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candleelectricals.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/muwifosezujoreroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b39797f7c---73066278717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca2e9edf22---56211200390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunrisepool.net/userfiles/file/39892110045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/77974328053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundai-baoloc.com/luutru/files/35468652184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.dk/upload/wisajarekitikuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=download+yu+gi+oh+forbidden+memories+pcPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ce1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE1C 16612 bytes
SHA-256: 4bff1685152c55b96e23b2894f6c0224ddb5b6339ab9cf6710e0ceb516d40950
font_01_sfnt_off0000f968.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF968 11412 bytes
SHA-256: 1d921e5234b2d655838034c433d7b023de991e426213040e608aab7512a8f9e7
font_02_sfnt_off000113bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1