Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7eed2bbc4fe3ba3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:05:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6ec2df7feccdae07b00ab987577a26cb SHA-1: 7dce4c625745c9e07b2d3e1c95b20a336848ba3a SHA-256: e7eed2bbc4fe3ba39907749bf2191ab976de13743db1e8e1ac1d0a91f1d334c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific intent beyond being a distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://yonseri.org/userfiles/files/resukekokezumefirisalozej.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/5709281496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb1b6d11d44---mexuniwitisezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af2ebcb2aed---tetamozibef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaskinfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b798c9f9e2af69c3a5b950a06e4ade8e/File/kibasegizegomiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanyauntuktesting.com/contents//files/vogokovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecnoservizi.com/userfiles/files/63466848629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a22b63a78c---bonibanugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhsclassof1971.com/clients/74120/File/20562564444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/lubajovurajalitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/202159155107537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/9425898149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosme.org/uploadfile/files/regenotuzumipigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a14413ea084---16652733379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c9521d2ab---famelenonatuwojir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f78b055ca416f7a48110f477d44e2423/lukavupuwapozadom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/736eb95283dbb6a89c5f593e617a08de/lazuxobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/5207268501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97uei8qtbf2bv533pt655ar3nf/51364072506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/19459303848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tragiaocolamsapa.com/userfiles/image/file/23979801878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwiatmetal.pl/userfiles/file/zexemari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctapigroup3.com/contents//files/zidogolofoselebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/badapakobikagatusanosaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=40k+index+chaos+pdfPDF 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_off000102e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011afb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AFB 10768 bytes
SHA-256: f314bd5648a54b575b4cc3a899ae13defd6b3c24ed5d8faf0ff5c6a1035fb539
font_02_sfnt_off000133aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133AA 18340 bytes
SHA-256: 805e1b1016fcf5eedcc8b979e70ab178a13be52afafbd97319c03a168b787b01