Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07a420a828eee092…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-07-21 21:07:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 66dee19c89c54538451aa218372c201b SHA-1: effd16e93357bd6b21bc0883e31d23a835efe945 SHA-256: 07a420a828eee0928739296984752aa436be3bddc6167eb73be551a8e3a6b610
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. Heuristics indicate these form a link farm, likely intended to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, consistent with phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa67a87622---90896948065.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jiendurancecoaching.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46210684956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/83717957209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izdepskifamily.com/clients/1/1a/1adacdf247316bc4617b3617d965acc7/File/vixijoranizawumupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qjbu27d82h53tc118776qsbpl3/kubulivazurodamosumogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f7d6c82fd623465879f0446477d4067/60342440862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff6470d8dc99590d4a2855a4e000bea0/tobodejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/59538608267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uctodane.cz/UserFiles/File/65799327565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b5bd37ff9---70121800151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80d4af58c881b52d8c4a117da2cd65da/tozezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archimax.ch/dynamic-images/cms/file/xerofeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0050570db91e36e6247a255855aa1eb/68146305729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b15a0b116---kudatajujevomawetala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panteres.com/files/files/56402810960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fk3o27t0dp3c2mci1vbm638d4m/kudategukowiderazoxipofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ec6925e26---wusafirumotaxapefowapipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41f412481f3e16934fca4d5ff1cb6367/fanopodovitagoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanbittinger.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/29592632384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djpress.pl/Image/files/16618694579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee7eb299b8e00b1b1674351abba706da/79872325100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/unlfdqnk5uhcsbe47freug1ku1/68177052217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d3ecb429496cdecaf3b03d9162b943c/94035692969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haumeaonline.com/userfiles/file/konil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=change+word+to+pdf+for+freePDF 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_off0000dbcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBCF 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 57805b4df5ea0eb9a8ae5944fa7364526289d37388ffc225afc220e4787afb24
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010be1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE1 16496 bytes
SHA-256: f8ed7d36fcc5b56aec8c9f4a3ac871bee7fcb7ae957e39d9ec86893eeb995235