Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d7de8fe3c582482…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 08:36:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 92e280ae5ad1ad4073dd1d8f2d553011 SHA-1: 16d6efedfe126c8fe404a0e5642ddbdf6ae8ffb5 SHA-256: 0d7de8fe3c582482e592ac94a7a6f5045d11aa9c05f68c9b14f594649e2ddffe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with exploitation techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://thefertilizerproductionline.com/d/files/gadaxokafenowobizabiwe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/up0of1gk80v3sr9s66catqomp6/77890944375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/378be53b974bc87fcb744f410ba9014d/gobekoleteniwibalep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce19f531ec3---78480270339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citadelcaralarms.com/userfiles/file/kuzapipexaworapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39ne2end11urthmbop038m69j3/77430862616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097db6adbf79---zaxumowotujotonokoroda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd613485fb---17485868691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/69295694786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920338dae60---lonoxedusesera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b74774606e9f98f7482c4bd769343aa/8705205362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionriverside.cz/files/file/96744760231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/9280331597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddgasul.com/userfiles/file/63713402929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd54d82181b27a756dac7f53ee2d3e8e/66800142538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78908387914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97a00c0990218613b21f92f6c424945e/8876928931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb1770e1c91---xivarajikisowinidup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160899a2d68b4e---redefozasewexefijegid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=kinky+roses+are+red+violets+are+blue+poemsPDF 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_off0000ca52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e264.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE264 16384 bytes
SHA-256: f0a85606b4b745000218b4e7d5bb82e38efb2fc2ee4d55823ea655289f572c25
font_02_sfnt_off00010c6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C6C 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 883cf6dd219388cf5f11714244e626817eba1789dc96fe7b8fe67567dc91c691