Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e707e1c3f9af69a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 22:48:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ac6ca0066241511445cb3835714cad94 SHA-1: 3bb9487c865a7f52ecc85044febdafba1673c7bb SHA-256: e707e1c3f9af69a5260a5cf26267eaa98876b88eb318fb36ff6a842c13877e6d
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains multiple links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a phishing campaign. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to download a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The 'SE_MFA_LURE' heuristic further suggests the document is designed to harvest credentials or session tokens by mimicking an MFA prompt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9eeedff82e38e6fb606d4446c7144e0/86543148713.pdf
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac45f93f45c---46249819710.pdf
    • http://50wj66.com/clients/a/af/af9d65f11c1965a5434adcd4cd578f00/File/1371365024.pdf
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/86959917211.pdf
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/kedafibewasofufusek.pdf
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6f072300ae---81250733682.pdf
    • http://alisawedding.com/upload/users/files/zamebadunevave.pdf
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609af91507c80---6582809634.pdf
    • http://metrocars.london/survey/userfiles/files/86627808626.pdf
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/kebuwowadepigemugi.pdf
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a93c867c0b2a31c02e3330092beb14c/vodamolesimunakugejupawo.pdf
    • https://uniqrelation.com/userfiles/file/lawekixune.pdf
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094824984ce3---lurupid.pdf
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38d90eb10b---72290153446.pdf
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/87162297934.pdf
    • http://targhevaticane.it/userfiles/files/metinoxafisadebu.pdf
    • http://extintoresorigen.com/images/editor/97324630950.pdf
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1bd3d7pjq2im12e2i0bo1shl0/jumatoropavusamat.pdf
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9e778d6589---zolojavamirarixamine.pdf
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/35576412305.pdf
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/41859463671.pdf
    • https://cakenepal.com/userfiles/file/bofapezadovawed.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=session+related+vulnerabilities
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e53b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE53B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd4d.bin
98b566527422d2867f24920baeb77f1e0e2eb5c9cf38d0ca9e2314a926263dce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD4D 17032 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000128ea.bin
9afea6efaaf8361e3f2f301ebfefb6287e65726795542fcee60073f197c91028
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128EA 10624 bytes