Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7f5bc963eb61bdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB Created: 2021-07-12 23:56:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 95d843b5af2179508030de039d03ba0a SHA-1: 4d00b6dcde7f2a56d44915d7776805f9ca5cf6be SHA-256: e7f5bc963eb61bdc8bc1606f231f966ba31f3dc6cd61417287b7978a5d38d142
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lack+of+vitamin+a+causes
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758808b431c---kugixugewekubalozazenoti.pdf
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1f3abbe3e---48977136766.pdf
    • http://righetti-ticozzi.it/userfiles/files/86735911823.pdf
    • https://e-fasteners.eu/media/file/nijonabi.pdf
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb164342887---kuxosiwetoligagisapalexib.pdf
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e7524949ea1de581756fdfb63f34b38/bubasebulukupu.pdf
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/7727113349.pdf
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gcf4i5r9oajjm03bk9su8c0860/79975384804.pdf
    • https://btsmstlucia.com/atomicsteps/upload/userfiles/file/29598127114.pdf
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d2fa58480---jidudapoxid.pdf
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/zipeligo.pdf
    • http://hoteldanang.vn/uploads/images/files/51137662454.pdf
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/29809440279.pdf
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/mobiramizomowugokibidided.pdf
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/fusegemomamuduveg.pdf
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/sefijuduvoxizuvokubule.pdf
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pivemozorovowujo.pdf
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608454e333430---9161462481.pdf
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/xasexizodesisugowilubo.pdf
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99071263057.pdf
    • https://langestrand.se/anvandarbilder/204/files/55274339949.pdf
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/gopuligumomibimud.pdf
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4d31043f8a---68166636928.pdf
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3ce9f3f9f3f474abe2299e0b4ca9a4f/molatan.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001278a.bin
6495fc28d4b5bdd1c0aa7cc0865bf965cc95e65e2324432533659fbd6f9e35be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1278A 17692 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015617.bin
5b85291a912c45d485cb85bc00b1c9442a063fe5e853eb108e8134bb38c6a8ea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15617 10568 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016e51.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E51 16792 bytes