Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7bf58b83378408d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:16:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 22231157bf24e6de95e03facc099fdc6 SHA-1: ea0fc323be613e562cbfeafa4645cd3591d80dd7 SHA-256: e7bf58b83378408d4be37424093051a8985ffdaea5c6d9bbb24600c60543b2f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farms strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mechanical+construction+engineer+resume
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e93fe961c---65574975234.pdf
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/39164956023.pdf
    • http://bmhs71.com/clients/c/c9/c97ff408e01126d63256cf68004d6641/File/57936903629.pdf
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/tumojediriboxez.pdf
    • http://eksan-ltd.com/userfiles/file/najifepudexevararef.pdf
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tp0hclarlj4431tldoq61m9fvo/kukot.pdf
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa1b512785---weliporuwiluz.pdf
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754ede83d40---90275810704.pdf
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/fegimutozonepafatubid.pdf
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d0d3be641d54c7dce9f83f8eb9c4b6a/71006059035.pdf
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a828f832cb3---49737855252.pdf
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3c13cca34---91976638341.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da86120dea---54590939064.pdf
    • http://execdentalclinic.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62925337880.pdf
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/robubodezasefudo.pdf
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/40457582666.pdf
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce261ce1cb9---gigop.pdf
    • http://contentworks.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e58202f40b---giriwifuwuk.pdf
    • http://activesolutionelectric.com/images/file/repekixerurupimariked.pdf
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9nro4rbc033hlm64jsui2ffls4/60197686404.pdf
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5faf015db9415b74f41fb7d23ec2aa5/69839026281.pdf
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba1805ef76416aebbae3387400d99440/saxodevadosetuwig.pdf
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608434f30e917---xorulezazogefefevaxizab.pdf
    • 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_off000104bc.bin
8c9ecce10c81cb5a4c928a53aa9b1186712cdb9451c4c7fe5e207bdc46b484c8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104BC 10768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d55.bin
96211715837b0d111c9cdf09f2ad1208eaaa7738a65911e7047b7825bf84e499
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D55 17588 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014ad9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AD9 16792 bytes