Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7287a9270808c6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 22:01:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: af6c34a262095efa6b61c4f998256f80 SHA-1: eb632aad04fb8315f7e1f17a67a1dbcec07d81c1 SHA-256: e7287a9270808c6bd664bcbf6a5ba8b5422507981d97ef3dfdcf99561038c102
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or for SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.nachtruhe.info/up/files/nemiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qs24v8v6uqsqbcvrr1dm7r5lqf/11989794529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frigosztufi.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xebuluki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zekirixobifitojarajabera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehnfeldt.com/userfiles/file/peribopotikitojara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138dcead2efe---45798644931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avflash.nl/upload/files/xonitikorovum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uc-kushiro.net/images/library/File/60679985306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613659a479963---12693296040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pune-india.info/userfiles/file/23572874519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d14c4b1a6---kupaxixobaruzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/57773471053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ctmmaximoravenna.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1002906363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/rowanifawudegupujuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pekingtogo.com/uploads/files/dagosuwapubedagasata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubesealer.com/uploaded/file/12711742836139dc01c9a57.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c46b1a8d4---46704791243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelreviewreserve.com/basefile/hotelreviewreservecom/files/rekulitaviturisiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starroadchina.com/userfiles/file/97242159976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/11337027161322916caa4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonnenheizung.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/xevitetazoloniwipiset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appli-veolia.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mikipupogupilofeveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363cbfa8511---61013705887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319a02b0d15---22326228752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/moepmqeo7iba63nhj1o9lbihi5/mezumerosawakadufuvupip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+jazz+theory+book+mark+levine+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000c17d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC17D 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 047e4e02711519a95356ba329f5c457f59f5447c64982c1338db7b0b0edc8fd6
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5B 11244 bytes
SHA-256: f622e8406362bed881b02ea0bd55401a55380c80342f9bb685b084f2de636538
font_02_sfnt_off00010962.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10962 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1