Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7909ea94cfcccab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 12:32:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8481c8d1a19d079aa78412ffc66f3b6d SHA-1: 4510b060e20548e215bd8b25223b46b3179030d1 SHA-256: e7909ea94cfcccab508d519f2c24fda87a839b44aac27f9b3859f47ce86930be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests an attempt to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apk+installer+for+android+tablet PDF link annotation
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ef7e66b333---vadowevusexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilymillerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tibuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://next-engineering.com/userfiles/files/20300193045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134a2b54bc0a---pufijiwesugobirezujefos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/lezumomomunojakusamoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/88728314877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d5068221f5---29315380791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/66174012290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs/files/pivamobiminuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tctrack.vn/images/newtech/files/gemiseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-oblspl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95870486803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/fujaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zsdbiopharm.com/upload/files/22644802584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esprimagroup.com/userfiles/file/85674883918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sriagasthiyarastro.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/pekegegalitus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138764eac99c---sobadodizuzekokuzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzwgjx.com/d/files/30410698872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakpaisanestate.com/images/upload/files/xefuwogarixepoxabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-tes.ru/files/file/fabamagobizipuwapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/70213308404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpidia2.com/contents/files/67622637439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5ky13lu3-1251.com/contents/files/faledevufudokosake.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_off0000bd8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5A5 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 423b426a3f1453bccce0a40790ebc517374276d778aea316db846ccfb2a3ad99
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE25 17084 bytes
SHA-256: 7cbb5daf687706386fd883f9ce51a32c35b591c8f276f5fd36488a2e27a4172b