Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07cde203910b8654…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-26 00:54:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b61cb08bec3f1d34b66b887cc416a0d5 SHA-1: 39026f9087ae81c470d2713763921a07752cbb51 SHA-256: 07cde203910b8654160bcfa28791cdbb887c1c4be5ec9f193ac9e9d6a43588db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which host other PDF files, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and link farms points to a malicious distribution or phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d24052afa---49427449872.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe6c729abbee3e7e2d10061a00b69913/dolabokimubododaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827fb0b4814---rodosagoxatesitizebamam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/009646bf761c45bae36d5c911876dfcb/rijoviwigifozapogefagure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universitecentrale.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/1813980334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.com/assets/file/36071336341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoodwierty.pl/files/file/82881507487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8579e87db3---48376347845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608940b2363c8---68426383075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/94407720461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/jutajoxemizaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fba0acf3fed---53841182396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210521231517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608caad199668---xomavome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924f68a17d9---zazabisutukemezine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/12110646114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korytnica.net/data/files/tasamekinaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17d1e87f1b---zowuzixujejabesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oomedia.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29371012517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olimpic.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kezelesukuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/rigesivivofeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com./blog/images/file/rovopinowupilileworavafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uco-kampen.com/media/files/milimerikevonor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a75318ee11---90416399616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=flow+meter+calibration+report+formatPDF 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_off0000e65d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE65D 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 881f6b335e8858bca2f5fd9cb3568671b928339d44abde8306c7fc4bd5e7e493
font_01_sfnt_off0001130b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1130B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B22 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 65d90027fa9829f3f13279f23eb38e7f11a30addc4561ab444931af3d0562a66