Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c7d0fde74f27f7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-29 10:32:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 394a59fdc76c70a73bb5a27163f3c436 SHA-1: c562235c50b75939cd587caf502468b381b52754 SHA-256: 0c7d0fde74f27f7cf25a30ed38151831e7d699909d73be7d38baf0e7dc038215
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates these links are on disposable hosting, further supporting a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef8c90bab7---bafuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/zarimiramadetoliniwabaven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e48683291---17576533933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2147964fa2---3407909129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-17/20210517225653479231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c03fdfe3a93307a91bd2110e88243064/23345444238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/86469579412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/40154167446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/89539671090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3281fb6ac29e0f403236873cd5fca524/25188516565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883a3dcb61c---4365035957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs1963.com/clients/7/72/7286fd37811b7a5dece6e69924e4d5ab/File/bitivedoxevete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ai7vn0773g4h3vmtb1kvis1h0m/285712236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tqjbbt5o251731qaa4hm7rjan2/povuvafixero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfcc5487b5---rijatovavebisunazixix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fb1af80fc7098e9c2a8e39d37992e59/7698332701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097bf8de2412---86007703710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/dumujanabosuvola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/61779299523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricount.cz/UserFiles/File/50301060455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waypl.pl/upload/File/budemoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/gutetek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/5838554489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangphatdanang.com/uploads/image/files/99280137906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purevdavaa.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/62863494881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+tell+when+jlab+headphones+are+chargedPDF 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_off0000ef7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF7E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010790.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10790 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 89415ff3c4749729e10d778bb7fbef984ee365f4820ae296f352413d37fdc2b6
font_02_sfnt_off00013529.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13529 11048 bytes
SHA-256: e9af55ac0145aaeaf2a8f3e6df0cef0464fa66e832e6b1c84c27d73b7a505033