Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e722fe7f01f98329…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:07:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 276b2ebf3d885bcdd2e19474ebf131b7 SHA-1: 64932eb46171c3490bc4b63788721f326b20b833 SHA-256: e722fe7f01f983296e72ef59c130bfedf76bab9d92b58210c64ffe78c95f43c1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of an embedded JavaScript stream further supports the malicious classification, likely used to facilitate redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://worldprint.su/userfiles/file/18628280174.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944929a42fd---sokizituxutipagoreka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d83ee6070530a23ed970cb87395b687/wunopenawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.erealitysolutions.com/tennisontario/assets/appsadmin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tawibufakulenibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofupingame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/faxipexivizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e465af8b577---witigajinakukigagejudesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gi2v54p6g4gadbffvub8l52bqh/56654039403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caissedesecolesdu5eme.fr/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jafolenuluputuseruxirazow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ub51fn4kot650aailtquhu6t6b/tavurexosirunonibajopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8daca54a3c1f1057ca06238985a1d5ec/vugemagijoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/30538064287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phonphangschool.com/upload/files/roxisefiwolabeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrainagycsalados.hu/userfiles/file/59453055248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourlady-schools2.com/userfiles/files/87684620077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edilgroupdigiovanni.it/userfiles/files/55420785467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/98536041721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/85171016427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770c650a375---pujipananonetukoximikusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dc078c6229---32207810807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/37725716326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/xebemowajemezepodel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/53062098277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=copy+and+paste+cool+text+artPDF 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_off0000e344.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE344 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 5e0c2090f6f25c737d7b683f0fae3cf9984d6e88a8004fdad30817123d7b5485
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBEF 20888 bytes
SHA-256: 243b458db56cf4cd83ca9b022d0503471c4bd049270946947f352f6bff95fd01
font_02_sfnt_off00013290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13290 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1