Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07546a898baa10bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-07-18 11:55:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: b07ee02b35e26890cc97b402dd19a530 SHA-1: 1b227a8df345a2eac0549d0666a13db1ddf6a4b8 SHA-256: 07546a898baa10bb10334d00b497de2283d80df253e4d43146cc8502f4275607
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct user-facing text, but the presence of these links strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0999782e455d6b63837c0d947f04f06b/zekezatumi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0909404bd049f8be7270ccfb211b15e2/sipotezebax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58093dbb36e75e7f0e478549072030b1/pimetezilalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94ed483ac6---dowusovezafamarojer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/86446830887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02e3df4597d8ff8fdfdcdc7d6bd71d96/luzizesitozonemizedipixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/715e3f4aa6bb3b7281c6d95e5b873ec5/32097869397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8a2f0318f6---82928009295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079012caf721---6130363820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94c48b96b50b7b00fb724de2f6d2b5c2/vusofiwajisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/54298856506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b966fa3af12---motize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/138c91a20ab5b327628ef5920a19d595/pogakesegozomid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbhs1967.com/clients/8/89/8985ce50e7417da620f75e2af787291b/File/kanuzobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/25604557409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e12775a47cbf66cd472f7aaeb4cfc0e/sonumodozifavadaligom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeremypourstarlight.com/clients/5/53/539822683240d2210db56c0084569a8b/File/gekaxutulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s324jbe3s4kuh71u3jebqfavgt/73949085978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://au-zlato.sk/upload/files/pixeluxunaxezinitaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luingpyrex.cz/foto/Image/file/defim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da22608f9b8---89920725287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=request+reconsideration+letter+samplePDF 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_off0000f8fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8FA 17456 bytes
SHA-256: 2ea6f06a869a96fadbe57d7e9cc911c411d7a300741cce2afc9a618ea09a3f2a
font_01_sfnt_off0001269f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1269F 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 1c4ff5cc9f0c48b4a4071168205ae270cd9a102e0cdadee7916fd613fa4499ed
font_02_sfnt_off00013fd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FD4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1