Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07d5cdcf467e73d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-08-01 07:19:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9e80d3c91b66440a1f1fc3a21210919d SHA-1: e1b518e738fdfc742d27926728ad33fa8709bb0c SHA-256: 07d5cdcf467e73d13e1d09987946504cfb012547ebc3283e40394ce8cb91c839
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination of redirects. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's designed to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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 http://dagmare.de/userfiles/file/novinalupuluvumamofesudi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160970efb98b16---nozazozurawipidog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pchs1967.com/clients/b/b3/b38b0c0be7ceca4b309dcb684d78a7c5/File/3393610948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/63368920672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3f036bdf1---molumegiguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saltokisport.com/uploads/files/76870163604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readandenjoy.ae/userfiles/files/4974544926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/vugogumurixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/76568878096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608666435be5e---76485251602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c1db6e21a---71299620391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/32849076720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/33710442614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mcecbaqpccrajcgq52tqhhkg9/kipumobovobak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalinmobiliario24.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/pimafonanokarebibudak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5e2d6533d60fd8d1297e6a082b691c6/3194961023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cea67bb31e---34838662892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc06aa410f---lorariku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/befotabojixesezus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/55240856751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/nopad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cdbe99ddf---8419813234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c70605a4f58987fe232de9d69f99205/50422758386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/tumonikenilivewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160981b106c413---pexoxuwoxalakow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/98756783372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=mother+and+baby+animals+worksheets+for+kindergartenPDF 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_off0000f278.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF278 17480 bytes
SHA-256: fd1c055bbb6a2f3ed059c8fa0086b9bff11f4c66fa4dabaa9d0f72b94d16d710
font_01_sfnt_off00012071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12071 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013888.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13888 11224 bytes
SHA-256: f853ff221ac903fb11389b4ed1a08c80f95fe20ef4b39ea7c53879892ce57f3e