Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e05007bccd3172df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:11:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: cab76507c3699fb3371926349724c6c7 SHA-1: 700bf0dfcc24f7e42e32a0023206aa7dcda7b054 SHA-256: e05007bccd3172dfa216057327e64ce1a8ca07aeeab516a828b033f5f6a311a8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'link farm' heuristic point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a5409302b13450f2663667474d30331/walunepofojagidajegoda.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0ddp13f303oafv4sdk7q1asrt/faxawoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/21761503679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18cd758f75---waluninebawederitiniziden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzqzg.com/d/files/jabetinizoxewusobodapag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitali-schulz-eiskunstlaufen.de/userfiles/files/17416200806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16092e7eb7f81e---65873791257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608501a0f064e---texarilarosiludisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607217013aff2---darinenibebogubotagebiraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cae2f4d0db0---kudevulaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be7c94d9ee3---pelalavuzapuvutawinapide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f45fcb8885---14511121731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f50c47effe---81737231690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/89221186875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c678c51ef---nitorikisusevudowurikum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/zejotarekonudumabomiliko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03ce62d2ea8ccc521ae3b1ed0b5c823f/gisemetes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rkjbne1n7of79v6dhttc9heu8ersfq78/xerezut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamondsnspurs.com/clients/12200/File/76894790286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d7135ed01---30073295007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoop-tech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23131607225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lgc26m39biuh673f0rnu7720q0/24620767146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=f2+movie+download+in+tamilPDF 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_off0000f740.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF740 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 67870c5f86c152146f382ba865906703816c50006209b21754dac678b3b4d68b
font_01_sfnt_off00012389.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12389 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 4001afe8f3d32bb64aa1c6bc76ead56d5d49170f4f1635fa5202c29caea7c719
font_02_sfnt_off00013b1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B1C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1