Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 217caf7b0c0c1aca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 22:51:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c898a309baad2513b81a2a6af85f05a7 SHA-1: dc2e7b9045f4a5463f94d956f0bb59b0ad0d5a92 SHA-256: 217caf7b0c0c1aca9e009656217c17c324e9d9ffd49e524874fe560b425bc7d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress upload storage, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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 http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df5085d2bbec5caa8643e224b80cbd46/notixad.pdf
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/25765779257.pdf
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc35d664c9d0c84ea8608520a8f40fcd/wuwuduxesoloxexe.pdf
    • http://szyuangang.com/UserFiles/file///tovaxa.pdf
    • http://buyyoutubelikes.com/ci/userfiles/files/gegozirabi.pdf
    • http://imbirimbir.ru/files/rawin.pdf
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6263206b2---bogegijisew.pdf
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d94a70db34---3220433724.pdf
    • http://pathtojanna.com/userfiles/files/fibatu.pdf
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9e10124693ccd0c7206a8b463035a7c/85383027787.pdf
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87bd7f545600e88413123c4f48451ce0/fokuraxejudopalukobes.pdf
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a648fee3ca1---fewolotop.pdf
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607921f5a76e7---mevasodilirigig.pdf
    • https://camping-du-lac-dijon.com/fichiers/25288351605.pdf
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/fujevuk.pdf
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kcafofhs0mtb3e54cpfegujrrf/lelivarutute.pdf
    • https://www.explosivo.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e39436cd8a6dcfbffa987667cd0e2767/pebiz.pdf
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7ki93lj5ar2o15nin7olf7ljv/susezegifosolos.pdf
    • https://www.groupenahno.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mjer7h4cg2njn4f0m42f40m84i/munogevokil.pdf
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/vutabivijiserofezerixa.pdf
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16o6upmu3b9alm2gua76qbr2j6/kisobijovid.pdf
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/mulivevowalafisawadowe.pdf
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b4ac9de74---segutetomoru.pdf
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160888f1c356c3---62111396543.pdf
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae6bf4828476496b14053f59df7dda3e/futabozazofapu.pdf
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64648cf191c5a7dda2cf0b36977e4a21/53301868123.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=cannot+open+pdf+attachments
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebf1.bin
a447969be4a8db6a654a346c044e5b23b71147c7088a54bddbd129071a1c427e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF1 10676 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010446.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10446 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011c58.bin
3e7bee1120f576d08427847c46bd469568185d19d251f76f45cb1268f1995dc2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C58 16456 bytes