Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0f7ea9bd4206ae1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-08-07 08:44:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 70c54333a175d968a36af8b819454df7 SHA-1: f38a98d3a2d9b96f2ce9a18a696ae867dace2dbf SHA-256: e0f7ea9bd4206ae197d434edbf2c6c9c1473c19b10911fc28d6835609f837259
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload directories further supports this assessment.

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 https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc910644a07aec6476cc9e7be2c979eb/37870379156.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tahi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kenikuniviwasenugikepodif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bogm4lhqg8blp5hq74e3kbvq02/32566650877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90d1642c1cf46ab53ccf41b8bd5c18aa/7139966428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f545019e33111a75ba4f3649f7692c2/99089385429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gujujugawulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chauphongasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vf270rp3scgdj6et0k2rh3rrv0/28460853949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/matitegebizejara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd856435a69---jifima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160896ae422023---63266530121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomnuocebara.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/7201041832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a84471082a79f0871a7f7995bd08409/5580847611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/50566297376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/kudabedesosojuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strechybenesov.cz/content/jubajatina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6ero82ktd6d5793rpubbsues4/baronu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/duruzasokajukusudano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ce664nrag3k1hh51e1a404us9/zadukizeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb6394258e---mupujok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbnjl.com/userfiles/files/nopagavaleki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuclocvienjsc.com/uploads/image/files/83341285196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruilong-ironwork.com/CKEdit/upload/files/22460241302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maurovalleferroarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/risudewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/60472838501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/fokaxerunugunugaxupur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+ecuaciones+1+bachilleratoPDF 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_off0000c533.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC533 17196 bytes
SHA-256: acb0645bc8097f4df6d83e7b49da2b81c66d25929bc103a7202013a72d5cd65c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108CF 10732 bytes
SHA-256: c1f6521d001bda981bd734c8aa92e8a9d465a0d61de0184a646842215b201388