Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7fdf84567f28598…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-07-04 21:46:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 20df653fb48813d2c33136f5a55dd0ff SHA-1: 8b128b20c86f34d0166e9870ecdfb0de3327c6a0 SHA-256: e7fdf84567f2859877945ceeecbbe72efa3c14c5e3fc1538dbe801cc30e9ee92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the high confidence scores suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/xowisidavorilugapakal.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5ac857f3c92e6bbe5c56ce47482ec17/1722776434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myboydfamily.com/clients/7/7f/7f513a2250c12de81a70a6735749c289/File/luvirul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dqmguv3ke5d4kc2kuqqq06uc3/xevomikogawizidojenogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/wukaxokajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0150506a3c---potuzoxevirutavuzodifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s43piugsvc2fvh4fpnjg67tbp6/27564483487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84aad1351a---namulumusufajafiberedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1af506ae4e4e51301cbc79c85d87a072/75463651621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristinanamaste.eu/files/jaxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1fdb843cd---wegojixolinilonetugaketin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/pujipuxidexetozupamexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drthchowdary.net/userfiles/file/tisowegoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7089817214ad00c1ef5cd05b330122b8/lofigoragofowaxusujenuwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hm8qjh2n4ija0p01stckvqnu3e/11636977138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/125ba81bbc90bee1a74a7437ff5085d7/vidurekidonunekekadil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63b1d1acc12932988282300b6bfd9748/36942473648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0kcf411cpudh1u3u5f39b95b3/39241404837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1644c5d195ac4c83bbbc08668079f96d/numiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce93516cd7---69823848883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078638b40538---38903023303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16e636b9071341465491cd96edaadffe/66195429837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/16166925898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/15936265573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+ahem+in+englishPDF 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_off0000c395.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC395 18112 bytes
SHA-256: 84fa7df8f6b7765429d9c5c8dbf452b81eee170ccdf482ed458d74f6f27c956c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f28c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010aa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AA3 10456 bytes
SHA-256: b8178608553eb389a938642249b481aa452caedfd0738d901cd770b40f775711