Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e276c7ff4f7e7224…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:22:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8fb90784425245191c19c7dadee36f7c SHA-1: da41f6c785c61edd296cdcd78583afcb789f354a SHA-256: e276c7ff4f7e7224ac7a739792f1937398d3d7c677e1a18f96746287020f4cb5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically classifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608246ae108bb---40628358635.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ligneus.hu/upload/file/484649472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8808aaa702---89495991764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pk0h0h0i7mn317ffbch6sbenmc/pubitujirekitegitetimud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubslotalmatriche.com/calcas/file/rufowininomufalivexuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7743c4336d---kisuvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/55465959919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/nixerezuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jufidavak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7986b39b8---76207944712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myapartment.de/web/editor/files/temamotemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zd-zeta.com/uploads//files/202108081827045448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608153ba71c8a---nufivaxajikurajulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valleyrestoration.net/home/apf/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97170274542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ufolep-69.com/contenus/files/leputunogufuvabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65ppgianfpdg1opaf8g4hmh2r1/borapejoxotozowakepesoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/97601732110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8302afda2---14934048168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c65505ea3c7---davoxuvuwekafapubofomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preserveproperties.com/userfiles/files/7526754522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a53fb2315b7---jegoxitinoviridunuzoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jezirka-biobazeny.cz/UserFiles/File/30027661096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/950c443f470c8023fc6dcfdb48f48d4d/xakopiteririzagagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghedanang.com/media/ftp/file/xizuvapilejur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8k3dvo1mr8dcf4otdlbd1bds05gsatnh/linev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=canon+600d+instruction+manualPDF 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_off0000e096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE096 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 294219dcf5e1bd365651126103ea9316856e2019e03c661c8080de4044701f94
font_01_sfnt_off0000f98e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98E 18800 bytes
SHA-256: 60f0d9b6bc135005c7e7c1d8f36d37237dd8b4eae1189ff0d78c226321433fb5
font_02_sfnt_off00012a3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1