Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e477ad29e21eb915…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-07-21 20:10:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e9d2fb52777c15012ed1463758051737 SHA-1: 61a28bc7999841145ea750ea3a7e4755ff7a44b4 SHA-256: e477ad29e21eb9154d697116fef967c3ccfbf9620ec63ee082c0064e15a2c818
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to exploit users by directing them to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://kisikana.hr/UserFiles/files/womepepopawetu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dharmapuridiocese.com/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/jasusane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c07cd527634---35942435564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d9c531101---meripuvomivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/25794121802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0qmbiifed9iavdr0lacmor14lh/6514410262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/suxovumifoxerobaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/24985103394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c69efe76039e8a59a6645b0c3ecbe3a/38226052828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84f2dff97f98b7496b1e870e9aedbe85/xowumeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/vubebazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99924d9856---pexularil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccapostolicchurch.org/clients/1/19/19d200bce63520a637954fb60b162b1a/File/pibiwarakepajom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/jelop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22eaa0c0e5---rigofuberogexowofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ea4f83512d08be020e730276cd4da53/pufatajinejolarogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/46884769754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://activesolutionelectric.com/images/file/75373974887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5ef41c99bf---rotumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arnold-sitter.com/CKEdit/upload/files/vamarojebevuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/kenulugarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/244dd537b095d1122a18fd3e1c2cfff8/16512830784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb3cfa7fdb---6417334641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=unity+and+peace+in+the+biblePDF 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_off0001078f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1078F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011fa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FA1 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 5ad9569de7fc15c96c4f929ca2dc67d8d55e189bcf76dbd724998715733eeb1c
font_02_sfnt_off00014b74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B74 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 2577a6cc25d2a260f24eb4fbc34e5276df1550bfbf0bbfbcc64d67d0b7a4bfce