Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07aa3b4dd864e633…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 04:25:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c36fd25d48963a8de1cd2f41ab0add43 SHA-1: 79f7c5547e6f4cc98879176911b8111384f5772d SHA-256: 07aa3b4dd864e633e6f0afed9bf5cd0018f5f5eb36b5e4982ab4f2e458b3d671
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The heuristic firings indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, and the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern is the distribution of links to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e19f2ef90f---52155698441.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/nerawuxobexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2386e3a468---76791025773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077342c17713---pujebebobetowemewapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d63c306b130---96312945407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jordan.si/dokumenti/file/pipotevaratilururatati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2abc37c976---87101289285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca58b32ad8---27275361910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffca4b60d1---zegaxixiteruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q550pu7knj2gqvsq69qpfcei7p/zujumafenifazaniweniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/5132935303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1f46ccb584---87739701035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/092ad6763fb1740ab4bf53e06058fb8a/19326481121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/lisanigenufumezamevumijew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/dodizasaginerumosefuraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/medexerejalijobuvekajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6796d63e8429beb5e3b502a7f1f9780e/63670102881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/wiwurerolapinezupepube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9li3uq929ufac1rlodo11fvvu/56666185540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auditorescr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puravokuzeguzefufakugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/19469270352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesmn.org/clients/17773/File/49094253651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f56aa58deb---pezamimekaxomutedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097bb0f92937---27869303299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0d211f013109e47562a1562aa846ecc/mimogonuluzegebajewedona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=failure+mode+and+effects+analysisPDF 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_off0000e87c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE87C 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 3b134fbbe0b3804468ac75463f97acde147d3140986d6a0ca5231831ceda790b
font_01_sfnt_off00010178.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10178 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001198a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1198A 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 1dbb196c40af5447417bdf6769933cb7b21457dcf58c96bfb55ef5d634225b31