Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e79412abb3d51b95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 00:52:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e8b52b0f7f7a325b90f1ad901e680463 SHA-1: 6990418a83a72ce05e74a955a241aa504e150c00 SHA-256: e79412abb3d51b95b5e224984f9d5463e21bf942b9b6f2ff6e0b23c9c7c57ce8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates these links are on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true destination or evade detection. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the overall structure and URL findings point to a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e6bc729a68---pudaletezuwiv.pdf
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/41534996557.pdf
    • http://jd6618.com/jd6618/file/2021-9/file/LwpCms2021_09_13_05_45_27_4059.pdf
    • http://divyabodhanam.org/userfiles/file/rinimuxeruninemixiwawem.pdf
    • https://carlojans.com/cms/file/fadugibub.pdf
    • http://yotlist.com/uniformkontakt/userfiles/image/files/fiparuxitanu.pdf
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ac2f2731f---42135572865.pdf
    • http://ansonseatery.com/uploads/files/lemev.pdf
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613552f42eacd---jekezaxunexuxelubol.pdf
    • https://www.bramfordgc.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fesisugijukosezepoz.pdf
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdl2e0rddhtqgls3rtpnp7bv35/2285716770.pdf
    • http://viettruss.com/upload/file/lotakewezibamuwobitir.pdf
    • http://108shiva.com/userfiles/file/
    • http://orthodoxnews.us/file/1962528048.pdf
    • https://preprodpcb.com/userfiles/files/38089740501.pdf
    • http://aktasmatbaacilik.com/resimlerfiles/95007563246.pdf
    • https://bikidi.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/89472720822.pdf
    • http://www.espace-hotelier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84252294025.pdf
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/35471176962.pdf
    • http://turystyka.powiatlubartowski.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7319204410.pdf
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kgogr92nv7g6al1voccgrrgkne/85907732826.pdf
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/24811679132.pdf
    • https://hunde-katzen.at/soubory/vawofisusijinamirefafinow.pdf
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/xebudisulorurusaxol.pdf
    • https://impulsa.mantareys.net/uploads/plantillas/files/velatugofunigizawopuvopu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=ion+vpn+apk
    • 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_off0000e06f.bin
77b331158277e384f833785fb5f09db0e90583936cd0025d6e29ac02b0d6d415
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06F 9716 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5b6.bin
387bd9df8669e915b79e159358d120d819971bcd6357faa56289679c380343c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B6 19788 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000128e5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128E5 16792 bytes