Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e71b7b03b8f667c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-14 05:36:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b8bec438cf7d44b497efaba8fdef7216 SHA-1: 1e471d59405cd63c02c055da8cd569f36115d688 SHA-256: e71b7b03b8f667c9c2047e6a94604cc4f16d027b4bb67bb11f9a8df60e278f6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, so the primary attack vector appears to be the exploitation of user trust through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+does+heat+pump+central+heating+work PDF link annotation
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///25306222784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607203df2a93d---kusop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8g1152e35tthchurpup2lbl782/jipowebujuzate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/22537960660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98f32c6494---bofukazorinumepekezatiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/25350096308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4v0f8gj8a42be8iuejmupueee3/50272076553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artkulinaria.pl/sites/default/files/file/wemekedovod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/762074007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2ql8mtq2jl167fbe8ov59si1i/55117381634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/lipabuzuzelupilifaxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumsnab.ru/uploads/files/4508671839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/degufafaverevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8d6360292---pilomagijilapexulasot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/tefad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802ca39f496---36307345353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2dfc266b13fd6ab56fe897d0243bcce/jibaxukimezabuwirev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/xusonoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3f773c917f92989a71886db929be22d/49535251308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/zufafixukowagiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cqrnmk73nimmr79ejb906rt5c/zukivebebunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/kurozowivojumudolaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35b96ba5ec---bidamazinudilagoxunisiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1na897kga0eotvncukn4ucsts5/68338503373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7onseventh.org/clients/868256/File/23814277355.pdfIn 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://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_off0000ebf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF7 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 1d5677824c8aa07072889f479ffb4eceee16216a59373a0d716bd7186da134c2
font_01_sfnt_off000118cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118CD 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 2311857684c98a63db3cd7f932cddd0ba61b9acc1739d93116fd002a5273965e
font_02_sfnt_off000132b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1