Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07f757b991a1485e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-15 18:47:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8187620b67dda13e4c1a672167058576 SHA-1: f4c9aab3670e6f72a58e4b80ab0263ef1dc7b068 SHA-256: 07f757b991a1485ef6c71b666fd698ff6afcca8657217cad3ea9a2d89a8311df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or directing users to phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL analysis is sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607943b361f09---wiled.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/buwobivajukedobimozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmdms48gjpeieg8f46a6frpp62/lizepefokekufibafonovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evermoral.hk/upload/file/1625543129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/opccah90rg2tiuignm0ubvm06m/3029177716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bdf1487fc5a2b9fd8e12b7804f3e414/vufunewofupenitax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813e23c9051---21982343398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61b55fe2a7fb1189812d14efa2ec4443/junitovolugawidukir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e138fb03c4a---xikubirinawimivujuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c713b73fac---vobebijokutinalusotesare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3a3a4e9e6---17565856995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hh68vikkcl6l9koe75b03j1qk1/49194184001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myxroad.com/upload/userfiles/file///fepusomozego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/wupaxosaxinotuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/18748209517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s69uh2lbgm99f4a5lf8n15et1i/58739367037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/dojanufobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8630906f231128c04d3a36d4af25c37b/8848823878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/660cd778d0a15258a5192e253dd64e70/42949697731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd0fee8aa2e15b1f15357a26ebe984a9/31889995859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607556e548eb4---fixejubafumino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00acf7646e95c0581c772f16144e32e7/48427076154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/20225345546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=timbermaw+hold+reputation+classicPDF 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_off0000ef83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF83 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 7cc850bb3769e5f548e31f7e7843cd5a6ce39389a4f709a0ffd6b3dc908aedd6
font_01_sfnt_off000108ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012101.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12101 17292 bytes
SHA-256: 00652bb45b9959e269a76b1e977489ef4fb6ed3a1a89324a907d277966aee850