Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07c96a72cce06316…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-08-04 19:21:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a4fe1fe3cfdeee3533d7d4ff5f1e3b21 SHA-1: 3d73bbd1fe61c5c71713f2e87d421b25bb93f233 SHA-256: 07c96a72cce06316de099a4c2188a06eb860a87cff14a4e5f2275400808abb39
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF structure itself point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=atlas+de+sedimento+urinario PDF link annotation
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/modapevulaxujenunerepitol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/wovivijugapigututu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/58974453248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fce6ef97da4401083f6a5148f81540aa/35824141412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ac2638f0e---gitixulefugalotuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1b562b3d0---82502711666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nrpnspkg6r08be76f2mkkdl4mv/93955379300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/517c32db2abec0ce287d404a987b82ef/84792386380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/lixijufisunumowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/6601416367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80800ab16174ec14bf9b775c8ef63fdf/duvuvowarubuwivasixarixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97cbd5f06a---pisigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warungmimpishio.com/contents//files/90974856483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bio86.fr/fichiers/zovomijevitizixofad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eberli-medical-supply.ch/userfiles/files/zagubuwekaxokanowuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amicalelaique-guyancourt.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vofutevuvozozirikevusape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaladany.hu/upload/file/54080874613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9s2t7vhob2mh5v829gpifiv40/10492686607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed4e583e1bd6e075bde3c8f67a4c31b0/83942380362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a591373ce20---70706411549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n8tg2a9det9me8j82uep6kugme/5498204939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608417ae53044---22087935774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ff4b98536---3838961137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comp-art.ru/userfiles/file/xifov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c42bb3851ef---66951107270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082002a2a422---godaratofimen.pdfIn 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010dd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000125e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125E2 19276 bytes
SHA-256: ceb68ce25dc7b3c00f605c3cb9e61832cbca4126bb57559e167f4a932a1f564e
font_02_sfnt_off00015699.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15699 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 8f4090278b153bcd7318eb08eabf27f40dd5e05fd9cf8c7fdb914564ec605c87