Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06c7533a0b2dc173…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-23 04:21:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f047dd8ba6472408a5893827448cc561 SHA-1: 91b2bd8f18a95cceb96785d055f15ebbafb443e8 SHA-256: 06c7533a0b2dc173e92f46c8474dc457d3201e978e905c2fa916f2533e0ee4d4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. This suggests the document is designed as a lure to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160912a0d72f0d---62535278226.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://belst.by/upload/file/63441217989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4930f75846e9b7bcc64e3b53a3e84c32/bogujofizegiboze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scard.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/89881223443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/558a36a05a56769543a6f8b31a1c92d8/61844062825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taechoclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210715_B968D86F68F0F730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inruho.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64204644357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/20239138745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammensfilip.be/uploads/files/17584426418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://to-kajihan.net/js/upload/files/49190402042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adea9118e84---latakidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newdimension.su/userfiles/file/60938995629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcoliseum.com/uploads/files/3308372814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607998709f671---xosiwiximexemelosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupoaccs.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muzerexol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/329ede2918cfb3f9645e1917e565b66f/4177472012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9532352c0bc7dccdbf41ce33c4c19e59/25657787837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160accfe0d888b---77364073436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f53d6c109591c61cee3acc5556461a9b/31804241096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iworking.vn/uploads/files/83489136144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangwontaxi.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210717_9767CA3101A9FEAE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50276c5b1628930ab6f45701f4d63cea/raregeluragek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/19414665929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=rdu+to+oharePDF 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_off0000fd83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD83 10080 bytes
SHA-256: 4a6057f029726f5fd8cf6fc69bb96595bdf74b92509dedac201fccd398608215
font_01_sfnt_off0001141b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1141B 17064 bytes
SHA-256: c437cac8f788a986155912b948c75b6dbc0beb27b7afe16a5e3b4157bdd93835
font_02_sfnt_off000140a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1