Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7bc5476c043afad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:46:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: acfbb8767ade2039d8d3abeb59bb69d6 SHA-1: 4d8da3ea6622c0594d4443a5af6c8436dbafc7d6 SHA-256: e7bc5476c043afad8dcdcf1adde57f64ca66f5b13cf785548b22cc7700f463bf
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. Heuristics indicate it's an image-only document designed to trick users into clicking embedded links, which are numerous and point to various compromised websites and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing detailed analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=derivative+formula+pdf+file PDF link annotation
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kf5159pb5djs11j949eijjk742/67990923100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronikavilla.hu/userfiles/file/28414252645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teakdeck.pl/files/file/65378811869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823f12c16e6---lidezuxexawarir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd61c464cd---36898186998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalenzyme.com/uploads/fckupload/file/kilorivit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85ad9b60b3---39084727531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608740ca3f859---kowotolipun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a962dcee1f---94285717308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5635a1039a2700a1afdd83897b342178/38942621088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbqr7ho4s2s7evpi12u7udbmb9/kujegofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae2cf1d88f---zadizelejarifiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/21022140939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14e3f6b5d745a9a27beb70e98e62e507/romev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//lekojovemarizejeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqe5j741fatmp2vrtpv72o85j9/dojewenuwafosegaduwoxijid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitajeans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79383792394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9a295b7d4---24740944126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vralumni.com/clients/7/71/71e0d721b250bdad3664bf54e70089ab/File/pegazeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jt7a74nomok3iulobchmqqgp30/xamadegamegogilatorotiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/npie8vcqsni72pi84fs2d32dm8/21466314496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/pufugita.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB235 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA47 14012 bytes
SHA-256: 534c64740d6e44226070042c4193671d84ee81e38828a1f143e77d6c6bb9be87
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECC7 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 2452ac2260ea0e58dbe4150fdc122710cd1ff516a5f62fa01bddf2605e500d15

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