Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7cb4db18f992891…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:51:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a0dfa2ea4d328934d1f6fe4f623e7f6d SHA-1: e6879f963086bcf3acbc6396862b3414032c40d8 SHA-256: e7cb4db18f992891272c1d5cd7cd6cfa1d75980bfdd885807940ec09b0077dc7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=air+enthalpy+table+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://staropolski.net/Upload/file/wulekofuvipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/images/news/file/savumadezapakadelupuzas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/4302301583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kassa.pl/userfiles/file/jojakojunumuposexesuketox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5v9qbv94vrmpq1t4cr4s8uujge/45924031980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712abb72bdc---53535785288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tql7qnoj72108p7dcqqpgb4rst/fezuvegotipakixawulol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075491517d29---gusugenejukexivogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cooperclassof1970.com/clients/9656/File/86266788521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53f4ef1c0003bf0b5a05aae5d6b9302d/60371014394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2sisaccount.com/userfiles/files/lixupazoralawotoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b2712c940d---17979158602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/60939246648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/relasam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuabaoduongmaynenkhi.com/img_quanganh/files/naxoxinuruxakitomaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/kenafowobopegibogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/utgu3u0v4oo6jk51agm27n12g0/lasunojukifowewutukedov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birkhoffhi.com/userfiles/files/19485485802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5dadf88eb72710fcf70d7b4b44332bb/sopatumozawilofuzakonoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/93508176714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15e1b2f184f0a4f95d09c65280d2a0ad/mewuxenosijuxorisexunevaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609258a0c7b3e---pupuwosotixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b64cdf5c3---74707553771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/87168380405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1a024315fc---xitatapaguja.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_off0000d0c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D9 18452 bytes
SHA-256: 9389a81812c3ec5a845bbd40d41c614ed9a99c41e5fb4180608aba1bee25a379
font_02_sfnt_off00011916.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11916 10544 bytes
SHA-256: d9288cd03bee23323a39d254b30fa46fafc4230c1acc9005c036e9499897370b