Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7257ecf9eee045b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-08-18 10:49:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6907e101099ed5ee6d361ad765ee7b4b SHA-1: 4a81566d3d7e74ce0cc1b6bc78b76dd74d61e505 SHA-256: e7257ecf9eee045b7ff0070cd0e08d3a25d4628aa32811f3581e72319d2eac2a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The PDF structure itself does not contain readable content, but the presence of many external links indicates a malicious intent to redirect the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=panico+na+floresta+6+filme+completo+dublado PDF link annotation
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96d489c86746c42444743f2e7cd86ca1/zupuwitavokemisufug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11453502060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983150e3ce5---faxirutibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bf53911a009d60e80edec4954082e11/15579827143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/99231126099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/vunipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/wurezosogizukodowulaseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210527120212_192427666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb2951fb2f---femagulusiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a842678d902---52896397976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armiikrajowej36.pl/public/upload/ckfinder//userfiles/files/ginevirefajubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlinairnv.be/userfiles/file/77087742707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/53668661516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/nilolupefod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcaade614558beab6fa60e95e2de644f/93400275064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectagsafety.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kamivikixiregis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a1bf885b5---jonoduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607563d1147b2---31104406965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c90ab474e0---wupedulexepebetafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9c0b46bae---67891119393.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_off0000c519.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC519 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD2B 18552 bytes
SHA-256: c46d18e39e4f074911315ca3fbc6865a6918a268f6708629ef254934a99c3886
font_02_sfnt_off00010a79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A79 11192 bytes
SHA-256: bfbd6962fa6870cc29007cec0541a7c803b48341659181fdce3710b195e5e873