Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7387182d372eca4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.0 KB Created: 2021-08-30 10:35:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 098fe8aea5de3704209a5fefcf7e7b80 SHA-1: 272dc55dbf0f24c7ae96dabd8a6f4e8e0d0e89fc SHA-256: e7387182d372eca43a79beb6e1f9935b6ba328d59898afceba9f05f0a6257351
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://argyler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737be372a49---dezoxigila.pdf
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/14477965971.pdf
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b08d4b059---40563669595.pdf
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/68128023992.pdf
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/41908906871.pdf
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210726_141403.pdf
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607860451fd53---mupolerisor.pdf
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-20/20210520061434567842.pdf
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610087212ee0d---nedifodu.pdf
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c1f6a2f0d---verewa.pdf
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/rumibifapu.pdf
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v4bb93gljoqtnr2udmj99r4b1s/73469672985.pdf
    • https://acavacecio.it/userfiles/files/zetedetom.pdf
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/57575513585.pdf
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/molifejodopokefigom.pdf
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/wukisoxukadubir.pdf
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e360bb83d---fisoxujejonexagumavuw.pdf
    • https://penzionradvanice.cz/res/file/koxivureden.pdf
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8504ece74307ca52afb692c298e971ca/23805093038.pdf
    • http://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/73032543054.pdf
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d0ca2f7c7---davepa.pdf
    • https://mmoxx.mn/userfiles/files/9161050942.pdf
    • http://greddy.com/admin/common/ckfinder/userfiles/File/52314979528.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=td+to+int+ratio
    • 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_off0001723e.bin
b6dcbdf1982f90071aeb78b25eff4238b270faa92dc64f7432275e1d75e0dfd0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1723E 17468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00019f8e.bin
a54cbe7dbe207483741f4342de9a6eab15661bddb65aab54f1197dd4aeb3bfd8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19F8E 9860 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001b54c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B54C 16792 bytes