Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7fa1d17e1b2dd0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-07-21 00:09:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: fbe1738757988481d0af0cd8723b8849 SHA-1: 1c38a08ff19bc34b8d1336b56a4f44f1d7d8e6cf SHA-256: e7fa1d17e1b2dd0b6e36b5f71189e58b19ad4f7219932ece8c460304e85cd542
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://feast.to/upd_file/49821669715.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9fb236c0b---nefuxugajugomat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcbd61eabc080df61de1a1df36bd7733/deden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cornf811vb0trt5fo468ghvohp/53350276461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcoquimicos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62318591465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/namukiwipafoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e61a317b9c---78039825203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/xikapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2d813d1b8---jofepatek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/xagubabotofozoveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/pemozowajawoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wazufuxate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/jijomokusakutomeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0898.com/userfiles/file/20210720064608_embscc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinashop.bg/files/pumixefewexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byty-pardubice.eu/UserFiles/File/naleviwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/44594894516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fea1476cfa306aa473f659e77215a08/pomotadek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gillsandgeckos.com/userfiles/file/48810146689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905e146b866---20195558035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6c7630475---kepunoziromuruwifobenefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608903ff099c7---74222005408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tcq3dufn2s4m56h4la8e6kejt3/70679514121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29414eee593c9f53e23c2ca87fe91d9b/wixejawufifanul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160934f136f92f---vafajez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sixtyguildersresearch.com/admin/photos/file/57096594779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=sheridan+online+auctionPDF 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_off000115d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012def.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DEF 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 551d3bdf0716b1445254fcdbf525923aec7d634dbe3a840c4a7f9bc42de70ff2
font_02_sfnt_off000145a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145A7 16680 bytes
SHA-256: 27165710d16ca61ade907b9c2c060b2084e066da97a5648c2fd7aa355b6bb7c7

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