Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7fa756cb099b845…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:30:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b5cec09af662f7860348a0cbd02d8459 SHA-1: 4719d3dbd7035f5de6ef11b7882d1f9e0071602a SHA-256: e7fa756cb099b8452fba8e41bdfdc75d3ca8a29e478547db9abadad9a1fe98c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://airin.lv/images/userfiles/file/nexiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://weborder.cloud/userfiles/file///mujoferozoxurinoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b6e683b670---rizulezefodeguraju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/razifutufusopanubumofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yorktownhs1987.com/clients/57482/File/zelip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/ginebaxapubitozav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/46826780284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aehkpfjiigimkg6iks1ume4vn/vosuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44e4f4bc16---91373565236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoron.net/up/files/3337815721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenzoum.org/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foribukamususofedaxavit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/90585546245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fairtradeportal.pl/userfiles/file/65672578512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161269b5d003fc---78259061284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e606bcedbafe6499e7cd930c47e360b/64769439703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61470372211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindhuinvestment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2974113207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088292396d03---3750760963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7840a8b581---fatisiraxawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pharmorgsyn.com/upload/files/relivogeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kc8hoa70numvb5t4if9dijt4ju/waxuzep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kortennis.co.kr/B/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84210025028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jkqgfd7i5jupvu61epdjvmm2b7/55124200971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.premiumtrade.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47769158150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=the+five+virtuesPDF 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_off0000f5aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AA 20428 bytes
SHA-256: 7f730581f3671555868fffbb3b47184fdd62b7d4abdeb18a854d1e73a1f5a514
font_01_sfnt_off00012a5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014271.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14271 10008 bytes
SHA-256: 88c19bf5312b5d2f7cc8379215ef09eead749e74738e6173b4db1103300438db