Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07cad2add18238b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.4 KB Created: 2021-07-08 10:32:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 87b95796f0ff867b8bdfe589f7574925 SHA-1: 30d98715525efdc9caa0ef62dc2badb019de0f14 SHA-256: 07cad2add18238b738151bf1063aa330e454536e7e6e6b8390c925bb0a63c898
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards directing users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9869

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://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8f3df0a2e---pedagibazome.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/modiwigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d24bb785b6556ad93b8bca1c2d746a8/70089531315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ges32407uk86967jtj408hcus/lazusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ba39d27bf---xarudowovolirasixopega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d6fad86ac---46987049037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/nipumupokupanusuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sierrahighalumni.com/clients/878712/File/pakugimafadurekupozidero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a725b8ea7a2---39689950244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b669ffa18fd---14619270464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25fb439b3f---zotara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/ribov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44bf7c791acc1399ad14fe7a153362c4/46837530404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c849de607---75717947570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b91da38146e---tegijesakibixepidivig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/xepoxigenenevix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/92394409199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevoir.hu/uploads/file/porinivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607577ff08170---pefekiwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biblioteka-koneck.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tokuniromilukot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b00eeee05---jinemexigajuxevapilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff6a9b9c95432689652a36055af6b141/10020349078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/saxisegegaguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fs6ok9pa26mf8s25is60ro4spu/rutonapaxemafolij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=chinese+names+and+surnamesPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000111d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000129e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129E7 19872 bytes
SHA-256: 099db01447ae059438379d6d274f250515e95ea1b523b4fbc9dee5a489a88ada
font_02_sfnt_off00015a99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A99 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 093dae5fac96a3344f46f82f76170a33502df2cfbe65658fdd39bdd3166784cd
font_03_sfnt_off000171cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x171CB 33352 bytes
SHA-256: 55960f440bcedb19baeb1184f384c9f9f39fd862e4d6a92e47ab816d6999a960