Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7ef505243653cbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-22 19:53:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 847eedda36ca0c842c9c94daa41b89f2 SHA-1: 6db7ce32652c2ddb685d68f922ec13f8540a5b51 SHA-256: e7ef505243653cbc1fdd962edaf18adb65567de79a7c9f47598f35a9d6da2eb4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document may be intended to trick users into downloading a password-protected archive, a common tactic for evading gateway security. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://twtime.com/uploads/files/202109040027329285.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161325813b0a6b---wijanujipapevapexij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/giwefex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profitoolinfo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63074953078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-3ed4d7413bdb.prshots.de/uploads/userfiles/1630846079/files/72878627529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onfireinteriors.com/userfiles/99067060905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f92bca400bbdc7460c416343dec13dc8/jikuporolomavalugevuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbeo1acdy3adh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/79914641359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mijinububutisudorejudizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/23186844011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22f3da9bd40ebc0e30de76d7d6f5ecc0/gokarixedegemizoxegaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://temporar.mirceaseminee.ro/printuri-fi/files/16686380312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalilak1.com/userfiles/file/65426306017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-18/20210918153846513531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilafafafa.com/shopadmin/upload/files/8759171304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fosterfreezesantarosa.com/uploads/files/jeziva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136bce127e07---11430171910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/guwofemujuxara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c0690a8c6---17783044152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wct.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/tefububeleniziwuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techsystem.gr/data/uploads/ckeditor/files/32068950050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9955bb725440e7b7690413e3ec49a950/wozawoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vn9fi1f4c7tfddud9pqju7cri4/85096477749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzfcw.com/file/fkimg/file/wiwabadifamanugek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/terujogemafutimisigugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+hypixel+unbanned+alts+freePDF 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_off0000e207.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE207 20732 bytes
SHA-256: cacac6769b1a9f8d78b30c03ccb40d79e9622ea3832241f9e4332cf645448a56
font_01_sfnt_off000118bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130D3 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 9ee5255e31e906683e895f1f5cdec2f9270bc56cd16cb4b49c9fff2d88529ad0