Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2a3f7b5e77e3c45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-06-10 21:54:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 07816cc5f0b0887a50e09234562304dd SHA-1: 5f832019828d78b50b9ab03234554c65a86b1867 SHA-256: e2a3f7b5e77e3c453a3ad17fe098a72355f102634391c080c886d0dcb44fb5eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to external resources. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further supports a phishing or spam campaign context.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+raven+edgar+allan+poe+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929f3fab8d3---35448152619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vogiantinhmach.com/media/ftp/file/24915767859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/gawexepidafirow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8086db7f5e5dbc7adb1ea525206e0ce0/gomuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071be00d6672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0acff9ac15---1937402591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c072f3ada29---dubusafamowave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/13179241082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160933d305cffe---xanekotolamuxokexur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924c938abd1---52952887293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acmemask.com/upfiles/editor/files/55337712017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sv3vnr2jd7csnmrldlepfcmb45/92758781365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59i6p7ogd8uat46hp0r49cl2t7/98024510053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/1097435186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085162b649ea---pesobezimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2ff0d88a7---lebomewilegajuxeloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kogan-photo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bac5c43976f301563b021d5e4e4b08a/64700419878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB13 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 54e50d1d2ba337c398bc6e3e5076f81e1b2bfda2167a9c03dd3377e5fa00a598
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC90 13336 bytes
SHA-256: 91aa049698bb610e3adc988a7f466c44f0757914e147b38c2bebd8cd07499aa5