Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7ba3eac3a433d41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:45:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 769af744966a41616161f41dfcbf6c5f SHA-1: ecbad2f60bf7ad763dc1dfa4534e9f33bd8d3108 SHA-256: e7ba3eac3a433d4157d7acb34e2d9b050cfb88f7b246a9e45658011653ffa78c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites utilizing the formcraft plugin for file uploads. These links appear to form a link farm, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ccb1e47c3d---mabuposurobivugenosumove.pdf
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075efcf91898---62097318814.pdf
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/4182650396.pdf
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/xarenikevufuneretixewomo.pdf
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/wenivakurewesonu.pdf
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/99824612201.pdf
    • http://m4klynchburg.org/clients/3/34/34420611de4c9c7593cf5e5fe12de6df/File/femuni.pdf
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210627103635.pdf
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad95db96856---kajaxidadasisafurawi.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0412980b28e3133345db2188f1932629/juwekidikefufavizevumo.pdf
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ff685c62e---52181822585.pdf
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607033856f373---83441551776.pdf
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/pivebutudifi.pdf
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/301401922.pdf
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25d5987d23e838060c7e79390a273d74/485287403.pdf
    • http://bazis-expertiza.ru/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/firorisuxanefapukubured.pdf
    • http://rspon.pl/images/wyswig_images/file/10594376254.pdf
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/15137361062.pdf
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bc33ebf1e9f7f2eb89aca35624ae4ce/ziwibesadinedixasugenexe.pdf
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/tekofowelelabojazo.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608afe7072e10---gobomarexibatarizo.pdf
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab5a717e62---pakusatibokexi.pdf
    • http://kangs78.com/clients/66216/File/xejemiwofetimijinetin.pdf
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1886d0d40553a0d8456d89d466231de1/11482096900.pdf
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad553b6462---17698250808.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=psiphon+pro+224+unlimited+speed+apk
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f70e.bin
50a0e7d41bdbe797c11f5cb82dc7473f346e2ed857c08505d0cbc4bf65b5b394
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF70E 17132 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001242a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1242A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013c41.bin
2b51b68428c69f49382b13d07b93e3cf1d4ddcbdb47e8b01361f7c8747a8fdfe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C41 11048 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000155d8.bin
7d15b2d6d265aaca51dda18faee70a1b8fa9d95ed54cb111fb0895789092f9ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155D8 16312 bytes