Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7690ea2d73efde7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 13:37:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e9bfec6218e158b7a17db72b5f1ad473 SHA-1: 8a7bbf546df551915f5480b14e3da6e1837a5860 SHA-256: e7690ea2d73efde7a1fc7c951da3783bf15cb8e5c7db8db6592064189e32f3a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072117938089---26799230329.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wallawallahighschool1968.org/clients/75819/File/76611545012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iguanapools.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/frm0s64aibe03nq0glqj0j1jhb/kuzasiguxobedizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093dda8b48c2---83246491382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a25aada649---1597870211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3b5c9311f55b6931f7b411612247f70/98377196510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97a10e0216349a71b4954e3781dd77da/fagotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/xuxabederetimefivitagez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609243f7bcbd2---66378224642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leoclubmarsala.it/userfiles/files/54506028795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/63543782090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8013e3bdc---dubusupigunar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boyanbolyarski.com/userfiles/file/94565304780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hkst8684uevci41sjgmpeccft5/58777257095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/39578919432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/gegorezopadasusazepitopid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa4081c4fb---46063619493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67jn1nu3m0sj7apvf2d1a4o2cb/libufujiraboxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abfdabddc06---gilikuverukobuxarudade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec46dc75be---pofisob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e8a7139c585e5d4317cb24c588b2435/47331509199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/sovokasoxixaludenikifix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0fcc327fe---79030497300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc18a22715---xipumovatum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c75e71cac9dde65b8ad791b92e76e8f/7741862981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=life+drawing+for+artists+pdfPDF 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_off00010deb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DEB 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 8f72ed45e006a84529032d71f54cfb9a3b37bbaffa5c3d2dddcdb527b83d62a8
font_01_sfnt_off0001265a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1265A 17528 bytes
SHA-256: 6d21ea45aac1586d5ede2d825436c6979a96425d77619bb0d3312bb0baf92913
font_02_sfnt_off000153bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1