Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7033d5f94e420d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-26 16:51:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 64ca1d6e937ef082427da66a5d522c49 SHA-1: d01d77855d6f8cc48a355fcebad831e8bd33970c SHA-256: e7033d5f94e420d596f940c0f9ee56947fbef9a111c30228d7b209bbd771dc18
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage further indicates a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' supports these findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612efc5f236ee---79560424380.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06044bc0634b609507f49a01a94963a5/zapodowubebujubowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shop-exclusive.cz/userfiles/file/59526036420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/47640425544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synhbio.com/upload/files/jolotevokalijogodizulewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theponghop.com/upload/files/23363351828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostex.sk/files/articles/file/73591950982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demenagements-remond.fr/userfiles/file/20210912003736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/20219162324471680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f4b98eb6d---bazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-13/20210913044657322919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/84022239340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1b405601191620a95265d79e3a2bd32/gukafim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inoxbienhoa.com/upload/files/posefutakuwawazudalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/54268847579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/12334881082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07b4bcd253dbe95fc091865dd0d3369a/45060587109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saiprogetti.net/userfiles/files/70947964973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://degardo.hollandpazsit.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muzetebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mundori.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rilazax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/pekonuxikoluxilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210918_6A4B6C5900F76698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apart1day.ru/file/fujewirubovexukevujek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetsnab32.ru/userfiles/file/zezajuraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+convert+mp3+file+to+mp4PDF 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_off0000b0ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c904.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC904 10704 bytes
SHA-256: e4ff429bb8bde9dd6457daab46ccef8e34c3f49a0f9858db5def95dd0671fc41
font_02_sfnt_off0000e199.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE199 15916 bytes
SHA-256: b68f0c2c98d32278b260737c7e32641929cc0cc63959e4e530ad8a9ac7cff3c9