Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7f5602ccde98404…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:27:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fca9e31bff8ff9c2ddc21aac33585562 SHA-1: 3377135decbbfd7e96fa949aaea0307bd1e9c9b5 SHA-256: e7f5602ccde9840405d614cf494dc13a8ac54a32939f4ec83f5bc06c7956c87e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://nmglyxx.com/userfiles/file/88736556205.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84vjn8968acdcrpq2pdb69qeod/53819043103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-system.jp/uploads/2012/files/92617317411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4f112187e---72282572733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb30c8e302---69482640046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/39499290889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m3hotels.com/userfiles/file/80495892351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaibonomo.it/userfiles/files/wuseporezewokiwaped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63c038ec75860c36f292af7d33e3ae69/bopitetoloxififesixogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca86f2cc1a0ffd456a1af7d7b9e29fe7/47438154548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/419e83c107d9c0ed6a810695c4c0c767/27265685284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaprosmart.com/userfiles/files/donuxemadaderuzazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.ca/upload/editor/file/fudugutuduwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curtisfamilyfun.net/clients/e/e0/e02f67ab5b6879a7eb6c21a3163f7106/File/11939325121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/napapatafobawajago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campbellelectronics.com/uploads/63930711029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaelen.it/userfiles/files/kixosubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8c41ec5570---gopexetediwivubopemod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensiblemachines.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/nunuwitujuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c56f7135858---80844647468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanmarinreunion.com/clients/c/c0/c0747301521b2fcd71a0106c9132c7e7/File/duzifotiradirokuguxazem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89905cdf77fec7363a97f6f5b30871e5/zemub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpk.hu/_user/file/musofodilix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b4878b3fc223d17ebc616b7bb589ca0/zuloxotadebetidol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=complete+the+sentences+with+these+wordsPDF 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_off0000d9f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9F1 10732 bytes
SHA-256: f7e21ecd09ba493e43236e6889155efd55b34533dc8004c9baf82c63525a2c88
font_01_sfnt_off0000f271.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF271 17380 bytes
SHA-256: a448b3eefb0ca5f6adf029996fc84100c0c170e929930ce5570bd93006f04d22
font_02_sfnt_off00011efe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1