Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e887a0814f1a5dbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.6 KB Created: 2021-06-22 23:48:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: c06821a03123b1281e8e983ca46172d2 SHA-1: ea353512cac9b5b0e2aa3d186b9c223b764e9e66 SHA-256: e887a0814f1a5dbbccc59fcd9a09041040265f7b76eb9124f801f67b7d537e1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to PDF generation and a lure for a "primitive technology book pdf", indicating a social engineering pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc0eb5a1206---84130548074.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sbt0lk1p1pg4uui4h1coe3gr5g/56122932712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078540a60b54---50160833619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1a60b0d73b---56936367703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c270b5fe17eb992044183b9a4350b6d9/zuvapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916cde3b5a0---zanizivupifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file/%5C/2021051820094348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a37083eed71---ramorobawizanagugizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb4a453fad---tifokikifaguga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennedy-jackson.com/clients/f/f7/f78508644b517540cdb1549d93860f53/File/89658591052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hc8b0boa6223vvr324khvll25s/gipasopida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf3e4cef5e4bcd6500c23bfaa6d0a9a7/voxixigedizotadovovuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9rc1v8hsnbfhvjja2ce1908q5/22262101933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okuninka-biale.pl/userfiles/file/biluzuvekite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5e170d15b---pidomet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=primitive+technology+book+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ba18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA18 5548 bytes
SHA-256: e4fc3cfbb8f8a0073e23ca2bf86be860fc16d0c407c82823fbc92e596c42aebd
font_01_sfnt_off0000cce0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE0 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 9de12cac5a2df0f59c08b98cfad7f89d042541bcad3c8df14b878ef709eab9fb