Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0a7854a4bd3625c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.9 KB Created: 2021-07-31 03:41:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5a223dc61686d127fe1d3c6127a74c25 SHA-1: 31178a02d035a76386b233ff125cff575ddebf61 SHA-256: e0a7854a4bd3625cc3944348bbbd5edbbb0053658a0ddd2d8bb0761ed3b8269d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated content rather than user-readable text, further supporting a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://csim.jp/ckeditor/uploads/files/87052716170.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/didodopamazoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce874d1cf119cdb8fb0d718897664919/86438947213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holmeslawfirm-iowa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wuzodefuvifipikotixef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/zonatuxixaridisubiranumoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fructusartis.com/i/File/xaxutaburos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c935ebe85a7---sarogirijoxida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/tesilagizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivotal-technologies.com/userfiles/file/balogifizevifemil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc46fd6c07---viwikutikuritib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/alte81di74urdgnsf5pc880uj3/23683665254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tl-maskinfabrik.dk/userfiles/file/23605624400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ic.ru/uploads/file/pawugemaxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705a66a00e6---nimuxovenomixis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/lukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f86d869fa11e1d0f9af30902f955c1ba/33145933878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=formula+molecular+pentoxido+de+dicloroPDF 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_off00010722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10722 19808 bytes
SHA-256: 24ed4f88d6b2e46da597ddaaaf377caefca98a244656680184a8a214674fe8ca
font_01_sfnt_off0001384d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1384D 10684 bytes
SHA-256: c28434dc4e2d9963e56f22bde70e59c8934d41f79143ad12f3a97f59c16b188f
font_02_sfnt_off000150bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1