Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7ee5a452e98b190…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:55:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 100e0dfb5ec55f556987cb1c60ecfb8e SHA-1: 6386e31d125ef3b853b509ef13b45eadfc0a6d2f SHA-256: f7ee5a452e98b19046f18212062fa9392056c0a0926b131cd6099faba74e6e7d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage, and employs a common tactic of instructing users to open a password-protected archive. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it is designed to facilitate the download of a secondary malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d51e0ba6229---5028101047.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/788486800658b66302f3b2418fbb98fb/32024476615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5252c3727b---4200341607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamkmori.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13338438033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/88291927440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aan.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17891009398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d28fd96bc---7047073736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundezellen.de/neu/userfiles/file/69634928985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aicpwdosaeast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuraberisij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildzipper.com/clients/wildzipper/userfiles/file/xonugidojevugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609caa46884c4---fowegod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assytekservizi.com/userfiles/files/19326799379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gillsandgeckos.com/userfiles/file/xilenodemijideva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9l6go55ttt32mf90ddbd8eqsjg/2087907072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee0cac571e6---95110794942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pifafubokolakoxalagavax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4c2ad1632---24022828195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadingedgecorporate.com/user_images/file/65389232616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tevukasveza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75154608077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/65870669926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auldskoolrocks.com/clients/878384/File/rufusobedurifiroreze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviatroglo.fr/IMG/file/10057172592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/859eb2db075988e9a043672574355e97/mopijadorebej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=nitrogen+fixation+bacteria+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://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_off0000d6c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C3 10800 bytes
SHA-256: b43cfc45560e308b77305b3d48ca1f63069ef94871a277b387748b76f774eed7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001077a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1077A 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 1407e904a5d974abf740e59fa6e7e5c5bf5e12fbd091711feac497309f5c8b7b