Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7c3835b729b2680…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:53:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ef0b2b896a2a5e5ec1ea2b79538c24ce SHA-1: 574ed7642ea57f822389efb867f5cc097a0d49c9 SHA-256: e7c3835b729b26806dd4e29231966b8e5edb85f9baff1615fa6431c09ef3908e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution via these compromised sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a lure to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/467a89a3a0a95261ddf6d99a67831a04/58841713456.pdf
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6212b54f44654f7344c6685e9d7ff978/zadujofu.pdf
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bea062f4cb---18480806446.pdf
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/40474951367.pdf
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815ad521c1c---bubopomevivavenixivex.pdf
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/jekipegiseded.pdf
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/21403322858.pdf
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a238da0a619---91140759147.pdf
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/tigawebidun.pdf
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ce4d8d059---85344203904.pdf
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be580a175e1---81709467561.pdf
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/33198797266.pdf
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/zaxubejukananunek.pdf
    • https://nullemont.fr/nullemont/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tezamusamunujok.pdf
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/waraparememi.pdf
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/7113953312.pdf
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/79366922961.pdf
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/15534455096.pdf
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b83808296---45655969898.pdf
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021051504495473499.pdf
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/felulekofoxedezuked.pdf
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d17e1ee039585d742c25ec2c3810f85b/51787350539.pdf
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c170436a26f0ef3759d5764847dbacc/45666342776.pdf
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc47340c378cfe6e7910bcf5602792c3/fupaloteviboto.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=parable+of+the+great+supper
    • 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_off0000ee23.bin
98159430669e66f09d2af70341359d7ba25701d989deb94d37e48c08fd0d88bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE23 10684 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001069b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1069B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ead.bin
a5c9e29cdcebdd9653b635dad1fdf4a8d2edf5a337c0adc46c676c52f54c78c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EAD 16952 bytes