Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7a34f37ed4110c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-25 16:37:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9d3805151e780203be92f5f6c5f212ea SHA-1: 50cfe76e6730d7a101a4aeb184243ba19da3817c SHA-256: e7a34f37ed4110c1ce5dd683c7ade03314f7a84673bbf191beecd541d6179c77
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 a link farm, with many distinct hosts and URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous suspicious URLs is sufficient evidence of a malicious link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bca1540b6d---45538352872.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h54i33gd23gaakqufg2h3tacfs/40406591344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/vupaxivupufeluxeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ccf363f21---regegizudatorokijijiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96241422e99b7acaf639b8f955033dfd/valufevogitipigibug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5027f351509bc4764ef394651e590364/8034181623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce51292a12091e458636be5ab5e6842b/53412785487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c99b2f2f4a3a654f458de34a798b2552/34837586518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.ca/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/puwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ced5920e8b3e35c993dc0300aa4c7a8/witovixugisafibijukobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/kofebefagowomud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kusadasidentalclinic.com/img/userfiles/files/dawaparobibefotozetofevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/vijoximigowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18940b3d40856a1302413005f7f9b73c/zuzuzonenigewosudikuwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f059a69051---tewivovoposomogobefekap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f77e48e6d---vebatudupafatof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/tukutimovaredojerikibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/418c5e71516d5ea52c957fb4b55b3e13/sunukixemimedup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/13240919520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9b5a32709---dufivezidoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/wisavep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=automate+programmable+industriel+siemens+s7-300+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_off0000f100.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF100 11440 bytes
SHA-256: 5dfd61212af45a07a719681dc8f2736dea989d1316e915a66af79e2f1ebb5848
font_01_sfnt_off00010bb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BB0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123C2 18276 bytes
SHA-256: 7ee0d97f1b37d64da841aa3abf0183ce69a1f015c313c406e937e817235693c6