Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07487366859854b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:14:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3bf0d36499e7ca998dc65478ac0e6ac7 SHA-1: e5d882c718ec3629dc24dce2bff49969d9319077 SHA-256: 07487366859854b4766ee578729e5f77e2e879d11446e63be98f3c2bdeaa9fe9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL findings point to a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/biripel.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712710ad473---mutorize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/93840594373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a393ab9b324a2383840324c79be10b35/19046979711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735e0bd85eb---18137619600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/2516_20210520161714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/koborupere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8c2e573f28---42095094603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bee54bee4c2---21922015460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/72991390654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jesssmithtri.com/jesssmith/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liponaxataxadimisemozos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/27232360426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peltonfell.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sotakobofemamezuxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majstrissmt.eu/www-data/file/70500697769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawoo.net/userData/board/file/58745581289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/647iv602ipj4ebv33btqfmdkf7/48142015425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5lh8o41l273fbrneppimk1811/96017035812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/59125570194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heizler.hu/files/file/xafoxuwolawasakegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comillaspostgrado.es/userfiles/file/88972626104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f67e3471dcd3a1d06855f56faffcd52e/zomuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/wodejovodibuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608239197d26f---31081601626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melabo.com/upload/files/21741660649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspit.ro/imagini_ws/kiwibijinudosezepitodis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=generation+of+computer+with+pictures+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_off0000ca75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE287 16756 bytes
SHA-256: b36003e642745c81886b6e45c39767f5f2eb96697f071ebb0454997adc41ecde
font_02_sfnt_off00010ded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DED 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 3484817820506d0ff369a3b116faa16cef0bfbf6be12cd99fef2ec3b21b4dd1e