Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7b4df39a92b8a46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:22:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8c5b8b464064861925948ea4293d50aa SHA-1: 347927ecab3ec375b59b17d2250a6cc2e61c25b8 SHA-256: e7b4df39a92b8a464ffc59a3faa6a04412c2939371dfebfa9e9753e1f04d16a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea326f0fa7---47472598495.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c026ba37c---nekonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtcguild.org/clients/80367/File/33999980124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2c613bbb9a2e4cbbadd96f5f454deb4/19654358901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4397d61a31c5a35bfd115c0db44cf90a/47999525597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drprdesaihospital.com/uploads/bazepow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dahchen.tw/userfiles/files/zodose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082020ce7b58---52611638972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086cf80c0e7c---lazevuxaturolokox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/gugoreduka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f547469500---36585738719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9dd69935d---61741697621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129b3304b6c9---fepaxazugunawepoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djbcjj5tvvo2bkqd5tj391hgm5/manebufowijugati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/813b0af3c6f9b7153deb5632b30f85d9/vejavefulewek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakeempat.com/contents//files/89640993525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/busatusefuzamof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/58567469826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af5535bb5be42089aae3a9fba9aec333/29319258185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosconi.net/userfiles/file/tetogisegarosina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/97495823296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b400196d7ce---78463643934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62675a70d1ceb4ea9690efb110951cbc/biwawodiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=impreso+de+admision+relaciones+de+certificados+correos+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_off0000e89f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE89F 20568 bytes
SHA-256: 1f0232e87df174b76da33cedb4cc73b05420c8a5750633630dcb6feacd5be725
font_01_sfnt_off00011c87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C87 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001349e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1349E 10732 bytes
SHA-256: fa3be41413895dfb3d05ce7f0d36e6ac0178f626c77b2889a282ccfaf6298aff