Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07816f7584a17bb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-16 06:29:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5bca3c829da499c50e48475d9f8d2d20 SHA-1: 40225cf742140d338ef5e2fca88661e11d614e5c SHA-256: 07816f7584a17bb0e1e7db8ffb7e2745ebd4f085167a913bea18a87e9fe6acae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The document body contains garbled text and metadata from wkhtmltopdf, but the primary malicious activity is driven by the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sample+meal+plan+for+2500+calories+a+day PDF link annotation
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d3797d5120948587bc194fb0f0241d6/pebivet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092790ccb363---benuxobagilotupita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/sbsisnew/userfiles/file/58142318216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094131be222c---sizixomepesojudejiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/ganixebuwumiwapudiwoganep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7q5iiphvsjiug4tog6ui710jc/tifadoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810720781f4---kajijemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5befd8e896336b31c0356c3bbb58830/gosipedisafogat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929105c3a71---pojukibemidapalawazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file/%5C/2021050514335440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/bodawijakamubaxotosovuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/43821981405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/gorinenimadakimokamupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.explosivo.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61231c9d529972ab1c7cf0c4d12853ce/lepiwemoxenamubisugegotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c48efd74eb---18314767676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/499a0aebaed7e36ce83735d68f816f8a/muvepidagonutavebopaxixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608600f152a65---jenuketomax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e403.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE403 5904 bytes
SHA-256: 91000362b9513dd755b17956961d60a07e740ee807a6abfb21b616b482736df6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f811.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF811 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 0a919e2ca4e74d3170dea07855c8eb06d4b2047168cea2d582812d83d71d8b45