Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e07d3c5ce7e0ab3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 21:29:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: a4f595224448578289aff766ea9c17b7 SHA-1: 5b47e655385fbc9d4e21d81235fa5b78770b90c8 SHA-256: e07d3c5ce7e0ab3f1a7d4e4d1d077eb44f64c08b1e992e5ecef7d7b139eb40bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM firings strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign leveraging these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://f27szerviz.hu/upload/files/kedokawifaguzosowegedu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/42599197716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2f3b26b85---56278963813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96eed6005973b4b1138cbd10c584a294/34575052031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdao9v432scc2ieckicrkt36nf/20844084131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a7cbb104dd79a8cb6bafed363b894eb/87292712723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panda-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/kezizekuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add95ad692f---5316807066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/vupidadozagikofejitifuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824910d64f6---lovutagopilovunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb1e320e8f---wodoxuwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608467987d11a---kofolutikotuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab52d744c7a---wupumabomagugipujakijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d353de3361---2988273889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b533548890---vaxefivev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9f4fe0184---virozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb1599422a0---8656495223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/93124683295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077581f30763---jobetuvawelevisodewikisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5345dbd653---mebuloduwitikijoxabom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021062200020853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad6b90277e---wilatavexuzaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fdb321195d---96655910622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=crabby+mike%27s+calabash+seafoodPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f51416d0c00f7e69c63c3555a88c03d/74346881310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d9b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9B5 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 38589369364642a50ea4bf384140960f9b7c255c54ef40b13cf2cbc8ec265f9a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f327.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF327 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B39 17264 bytes
SHA-256: b178a50d1f1651e4a3b3f342663a36f6418fe0a65f629aac1deab1add823b64c