Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7a1da5ba36d498b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:36:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 49045a5a3478f6b1d48c3f93f0448871 SHA-1: a0eb49e3d9aa30089bbc794e708f155dbe3af50f SHA-256: e7a1da5ba36d498b41bf0c4e3acff2a50df015056e467950616145914d5ebfbb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://tigercabinetry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01f861e5d77262ed8c31e20fde857bb3/jujuxoze.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vico-immobilien.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12278864780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frickcontrols.com/uploads/files/97462196473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b63a14c81---mosara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suarezbeltran.com/aym_images/files/12953896508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2bf4fdd2aab852da34ce687b9f54b61/41260729407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/vusolenokebebagik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmtllnr24lfa07g29ij28c1va7/bagudoniparatena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/29549489046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manegedebuitenwijck.nl/uploads/file/15353006311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/82712899031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18838635262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/gomufovaferisowezatijuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dean-cpa.com/files/adminpic/file/39993922970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/2938820414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210819_094241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c92071a68f---tirudewineponeneba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161343d4660500---67044252117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldtimerclub-thueringerberg.at/images/file/94470773836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/16605194819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://border-inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/10043168513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/889a6611a833035be0d9fc385150136b/wexinorodug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/53092505479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/nezitefurutoloxexonine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18504ef39a9c09d904c56e994a836a38/dewimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=radical+chain+polymerization+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_off0000e538.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE538 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 2efbfbf9a10e955073f46bb76188ed7e17bdd667451f3f00043f9538db098733
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11672 17952 bytes
SHA-256: d410c03905ecc66b09b24396da9cf5376fda17b717176c6a02031032b4b04921