Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e391ed6c4912007d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:45:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e30edd9f71b5a9647f938fc2268c00e7 SHA-1: cbccfbc36a888e12f1f1d036136c5177d3ced89b SHA-256: e391ed6c4912007d44fe3bbd09c64f0119f2fa8b0df5af5193fe9989d9c08da8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host and distribute malicious files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing or malware delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ac67b3f85---51731104189.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7677c92cbfa4ae72b9ad22874fe0f346/ralezexemar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/2516126741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/fatusumip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0594b1f22eb39b41785d0e8792e587d9/domejiwotupawun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ef987341a---desapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b018fc99c53---42806189752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nm2d6j8s16cv5sgiut0aa7rflr/sudutovoxezevuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5a3048b0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e88210622---51771567366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/11750467695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/550ef8d9c693aaeaedd9207d4f833e72/64134153917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1b3473562---96187454273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/gobojeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609703443ad11---muvivunegokezoroxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609104401a12b---7045926363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8d9plf10o2v3cct9u1c8c7kj6/74840866101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d22da6b262---38649877162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d79d0f0ee---43501937457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafemocion.com/userfiles/file/87893095451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/390dcae518eb3108d333c6e9f4f56004/disuzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mclandpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/63042198382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/zezadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=the+meaning+of+deportationPDF 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_off0000dc8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC8A 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 5549b5ce0ccbe1f0b190483da08671e6fc4bd9ec1d866ef75c96afaae8521de0
font_01_sfnt_off00010b8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123A2 10696 bytes
SHA-256: fbc7628ac97c426585f847bfa7aa4058e529c9720afb07809b6697154417556a