Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0784dc447ef2145f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-27 10:50:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 20a3f6abc60f89a856e49dca7c2e7927 SHA-1: d2a695e624da958cf5dce15ecc4f97c8a2df4139 SHA-256: 0784dc447ef2145f97bae48ee60a56d6db61ba467ef9d18b2419f274712883e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous 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, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via embedded links. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/436cabebcce4e94ce6ad60da485cc01b/64323192721.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41eb5u6cenmq6032lqm6htl0lj/77245920988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967bb76ccc7---zimimewuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/tigaxefemusorog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de15daab6eb352cb12ff5bdc3a9e75e6/66083076417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d1ab281f9dfdb2d9844d357b141474d/31094198272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agt.es/files/galeria2/files/dedibixunapupaduser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/40591171982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/rosesozix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/gufurezazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf0a33c6e8---bejazuwekukex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072021d34b6d---tugimeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db4ea423557---42811964064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607338c6b51f8---66892203093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e2033cf34---puvaxeroxesajivasagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henrycrawfordreunion.com/clients/1/19/1929e20d1ffebcad6d8b2a659e9c170d/File/95610962732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e2ingenieros.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91031756941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juniorclublivorno.com/sitonews/images_upload/files/73272482712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec1e5a6f0ff73cecb2a7d759f452cee8/50325793323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzayithalat.com/spot/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/wodizudezesomepagekeludew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7cu4r7tnbseq2iootgbqjsjer/36083715322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toeterloeh44.de/files/3605598843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fae48f52412---77830855923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ab8c8667f---bukojapusevuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31222497a10c3f212eb660eedecdcb3d/zejofuvoven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+civilcad+para+autocad+2014+64+bits+gratisPDF link annotation
    • https://mega.co.nz/#In 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d6a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6A1 18380 bytes
SHA-256: c41c84b7c9b17e69464be42f151955a53263b9ae87b129c4b76ff246a7629532
font_01_sfnt_off0001069e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1069E 11432 bytes
SHA-256: 4586a503df992632fe8e4dcd5f54deedae821482fc7757eeb644b6216d580ee3
font_02_sfnt_off00012176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12176 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013983.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13983 2888 bytes
SHA-256: d5d2b2554a95bc25c02a094368ebbf58a63489513068e328c99e3eda12e9829b