Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07117c96f47fcc04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-07-14 00:57:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 27aa6d68b5178be4f204474685db6183 SHA-1: 23cbe232d78aa6e455f4e9d1ac9df107469c3dd5 SHA-256: 07117c96f47fcc04a7a0b18893b69bd3df614f3cab60d904d5448000f2a89db3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate that the primary function is to redirect users to malicious external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=operating+system+three+easy+pieces+pdf
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc492e296ba---65741407117.pdf
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5aea4fe8118069009b9a20e5fd321bd/25626924124.pdf
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e11be16d548b4e9cecf59cb6851ea510/lugisalesivotutemesuxa.pdf
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f543b3697a44b4887e0acfdd52bac214/85680617120.pdf
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088046f30713---34831559524.pdf
    • http://omg.su/upload/File/sojuve.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fc1460d2a03bf78e2ec2da63049012f/16475884914.pdf
    • https://thinkhigh-tech.com/d/files/xudekipumanep.pdf
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b39d7576563---nakiganiwuduz.pdf
    • https://ropaalmayoreo.com/images/userfiles/file/84745400413.pdf
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zovomale.pdf
    • http://carrozzeriabosini.net/userfiles/files/76522427956.pdf
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3fbb47920bc1764a8aacb45149eb474/1306285057.pdf
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a42a348140c0cab0ceb816a1ce75d94/78606260252.pdf
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/niratasur.pdf
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ekr0s6oorilem74418i5lv357/96522093364.pdf
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/58231811917.pdf
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9478e33c8---27768497202.pdf
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5df262a4b96dc7cd2495c081701d5d1/48002348329.pdf
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773cf0ec59d---lurilanafavipaxozewa.pdf
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c32602c16e3---25295558983.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001044b.bin
ec367bbe5cff8aa930e713b6354794a2635508ec3ccebc7e00f3adf5085a3740
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1044B 11040 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011daa.bin
169a10853ee77cd59214964b863ccba6ac2156746f584275573e1dddae556167
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DAA 17868 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014ce7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CE7 16792 bytes