Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7a9fb491ace9134…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:45:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 875c5d50d17e2281706179b3c093d817 SHA-1: 62f4baa54d101cd8d762a478a550bf7d1d1042c8 SHA-256: e7a9fb491ace9134919a036c66ae4affeba5abaf9b4882db64be902662823949
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, with multiple distinct hosts and URLs, some of which are hosted on disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813e6585223---49059248786.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/xotul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkt-optics.com/hkt/images/userfiles/file/vopowaparasagupepamojib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/64603773856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13964e37b3be95e5e19d05244405c254/livekimanurebisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b85325e3507---vajoxemanelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/64355046095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/blh61uggf7aigrqh3fihqg607m/kugunupazirevokoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9abf83c3e0---82095993436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90246327832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e89595pmch5ki2est81ljpg2fu/81099197470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltwhitmanclassof1965.com/clients/c/cc/ccbfa8a87e297cd67510599b8aebcb74/File/92108044570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/65638649786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93023858778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/powinazuvokon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d213ccadba---wimuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/muvixovilejepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapcdn.space/web/img/podborky/files/revusotunadubofadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a715ea30471007fcc9bc4f2f8ad5521/larusonixepurilizokukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/67756306922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lm4o9naekr1lnqar7iirmnapdf/ropuveburiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9k86esqdm9tqprfetdhp9ju34/sepawisemenizidike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=acnl+the+roost+guidePDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3ca85ce75ee0aa06b60d30356688b5f/rivewosazox.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C02 1772 bytes
SHA-256: 172309685fe98285604e713d49568994867313c34855d65ac26f2a3d6e9690f4
font_02_sfnt_off00011445.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11445 17976 bytes
SHA-256: 616c60aa08af69bb7fb040338d9bfaf6d627a7bec2d1f8cd350f8381c84d07ad
font_03_sfnt_off000143b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143B1 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 85e34d3641edd708cd2688734f9f18e31797772ba800d1d5cd696f67776040aa