Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7c9591ca7e2ac89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-14 09:34:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c61e37f81fc76efa39662706165b0b44 SHA-1: 4a3da4673748639eca224f311b30c2c8b2274dab SHA-256: e7c9591ca7e2ac899a47adeabe831a1fcf305b1bf9b796a9dedc316ec01ded18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a campaign to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073492e8e5b4---25453742346.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e10a66ad067163a95ffe7dacd7056f27/jomakupujutixafironalaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p9kfq28qkhkqf3c2o5pvef758k/jifesizipojosetuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13d4ae1560b48e2edc8eb075a24d640d/jitepufaxuvukilifasiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4b0bfcba87---77781422080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijpdua.com/contents//files/zaruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/dopasemisuvojemakoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalipublisher.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fukoruwisoxegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64370911963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96c538e41b---72496761550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727cc9141c4---86622772185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c8fpmfq28vg4aknjq7v9h7qa0/49106458209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/gekibamarudigukunozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dj3ev773159s2fa0df9cjuq394/galipevarogogudofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/53307084141622491690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lenosada.sk/editor_uploads/files/34695210732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608745a25e879---18085484231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eff08b31af---35216901653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad16575050---24002672327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979cc477d3a---tefidekuvitejigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/piwudixajifozajosanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a252bf481f1e5eaccdd2fe49901c8bb6/lanem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e7c7187ba7---tesodip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/balipejunirusemelopofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=300+mbit+to+mbPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ec99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC99 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104AF 9892 bytes
SHA-256: 3a2c2aff43d218c6ae6afc3e6db0868f089349b170127a52f3544099cce623d5
font_02_sfnt_off00011a6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A6E 18252 bytes
SHA-256: 3a3a6c62883b78598f5dc8afea86c0bf92a657f6791d56e7f7361be5efcc510f