Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7b9fd1d7aa83e12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:42:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7a94b9aceb377e3984e0410741966a8a SHA-1: b4385b8b577541f4de5cb0a997232cbda4b763ec SHA-256: e7b9fd1d7aa83e120836bbc736ca2a0123a3a4edfceeec395dfe93dd40b3a0f0
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV. The 'SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE' heuristic strongly indicates a phishing attempt related to lotteries or prizes, requiring users to provide parcel delivery details. The PDF contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or further phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7aa37a67b---4890044929.pdf
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608892477714a---xunolomikizarujutubik.pdf
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c32c66a0c02---wazutuwebufupirekofarefu.pdf
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf86c023c4f---tosevitozusoniwe.pdf
    • https://all-stage-meditation.tw/uploads/files/60b9312382dbc.pdf
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/60840942202.pdf
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943cae33fa8---42980464475.pdf
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/foturikovewew.pdf
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094580eaef60---lukedaxunoda.pdf
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2144700cbd---sebixojoligagidijefobi.pdf
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aea87fe7fa4d61b409bdacf40c44fad/21331553788.pdf
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ukm4osvcph6k5bhlf71etm1q5h/57998055965.pdf
    • http://regimhotelierbucuresti.com/images/userfiles/1787951907.pdf
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/ruzumojaw.pdf
    • http://www.edgartownschool.org/uploads/files/31431907729.pdf
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ebf36ffe1223097c2fe8decd7a63233/66666422828.pdf
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e2634cf73764a03117427c7dcc4130b/nanojafere.pdf
    • http://ithalattagarantibelgesi.com/resimlerfiles/bijorivole.pdf
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/47038158837.pdf
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859de0cc8ff---nisusaveronewuzogugowije.pdf
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b638cb2843053e8d92e201ff937ee5f/93066265014.pdf
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1369eefd7a55b8121c4c0865b06b2907/fowuvasamuliso.pdf
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726f298f4bf---93140338240.pdf
    • https://www.visitrwanda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce42f285ab4ad24b6e96757fb900aca7/lurixanoridipifupil.pdf
    • http://cadeco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/wiwoderugoregazol.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+unblock+a+phone+number+on+android
    • 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_off0000ee15.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE15 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001062c.bin
977b0a3c7361497068fef01ad6b13e56e889931686c728f3842b0a7ade2a418c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1062C 11036 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011f5e.bin
66774c54d92e0e0e40973f94133a73eaaee1c87ddc2862cd23cb71e504f5e95b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F5E 17516 bytes