Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7e0e89b00ef4c1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 18:53:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d68210cd263f9afd053bef49aefe9c58 SHA-1: 262b063e6ecd6bd62434b237e2fad856a9549fc3 SHA-256: e7e0e89b00ef4c1f7fb7bfbcd141e81af1cf6b3327e2480f74e4ee6b06955378
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it is designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, specifically flagging it as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a distribution mechanism for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/982b321e03affcccbac0c4e4fcf5cdc7/xusaxezewarumotekipazib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/garudogewuriduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87dd498870---ladozetiguzul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9404a953f4---letojunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/bavemapexetokilozuvinefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0b9704c19---ginefexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stinpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ridosogupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/fowopazerogodawisegis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predia.cz/userfiles/file/nolukusudakojer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/945d1d69a46899dfd166536092f0785d/wosibubeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/48488308929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b035055d434---88210823485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4c2ccd61e---dopanurajonepis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908207901c8---88503761346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2167ca39a4---balovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b1bcd12544778b5a5e5429799f5adb7/kufimakupawosogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/77626916686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7emhiocj40asaq7u2sqae16q4/93531910608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childconcern.in/trila/userfiles/file/rotavulubos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609455ded3acc---12164281063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764336a4e2c---zevasogugatupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916f520face---36169128584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/37485858449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20864dea71---71990247439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mei0vonhtaco66sr5ic1gr8grk/93566016424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+uppercase+and+lowercase+letterPDF 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_off0000e491.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE491 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fca3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA3 20136 bytes
SHA-256: 285a31d5b03be4236081dc6b10f103b00efa482d13faf820e11e362f509ecaa1
font_02_sfnt_off00013272.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13272 10972 bytes
SHA-256: c11b8d596320e21e55dbb19bb9dd9a4c41515e6f850a8dd183a47cf0d410cfa8