Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7039821ef66d8223…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-06-13 04:00:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1f64dd128ebfec0c35ebf9d872795f8d SHA-1: 28651163dbe8e4a83ca2177f7e5093b226ae82c6 SHA-256: 7039821ef66d8223f15f711358c4a111b50391efc4db610a8eb66ac44c69a40c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'utm_term' parameter in one of the URLs indicates a potential tracking mechanism for a phishing campaign. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or trojan delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tere+mere+pyar+nu+nazar+na+lage+download+song PDF link annotation
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a068ab973c8e0a4cdcf5e40e5fc9110/75317095036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf6ccda1da---fivaworoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/44994813792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85c1c94a6cf62f2ee8e238c26fcb9f2c/dogezupemudovumat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/280610458395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/56052547658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakesandcupcakes.net/userfiles/files/82986636383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607005d71df50---3268293712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff597463e3dd2c55064cac205990f924/vutimawipifapuxevopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ff634848c3afe8d8bf64515523243ec/71776195800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarazzi.eu/userfiles/files/21096713817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd432d66bed---zukomakadarolesetusin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853b0ba4941---93851172852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd564fcf769---dogewatusagewilid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f8aec3352395936c97399d89ec86f63/51844667946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/nokarowexed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC95 5472 bytes
SHA-256: b12e52dd67bfe4f5ada669e76d4ad409c5f2069c16f25227ff2bf7261fbddbeb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF2C 2044 bytes
SHA-256: 28336a0cb3f8e641e75945af3d35324194abd932e21d2bc38800f63db353b10a
font_02_sfnt_off00010897.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10897 10684 bytes
SHA-256: f9b164400b1102c503915df7ab60394998bd97361c2f03bad716aba847b2c52d
font_03_sfnt_off00012d3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D3A 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 313c3940a6f4aae92ceaa1b1a843de6e6f13411355a457aba6e018c383fce54c