Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7182b47736d6ee3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-17 00:41:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 05880c5617aeab82abed64827085ccdb SHA-1: 143f9cc6d5d31af989d5cce181e64deb4421636a SHA-256: 7182b47736d6ee3d269cc150cc344dc4a6c58fbbaaa036934783b11f5f00351d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites utilizing formcraft plugins for file uploads. This suggests the document is designed to lure users into clicking these links, potentially leading to further malicious content or exploits. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac33f594744---rafanezazidewa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://riversedgefm.com/files/file/dezega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52139bff75f62c0d88a602b8c632ab05/81110133466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf7b408be0---sawasafiwaliru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df8749268e5---faxumalenadeguvoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0351.com/userfiles/file/20210703011826_u93sfv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.eemedia/contents/file/danes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3bed5c09c7---98659829644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pdsomar1q4jblkgo2p3ou1b9ml/8179751068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1fb7563765---dunawudamifaxidewakumiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suncitygroup.ir/basefile/suncitygroupir/files/29898775622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecoferfamily.com/clients/7/78/7892d776c92a08c80f86ebc6236678d2/File/37584639515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaod9lr4bt2ccikcmtdfv9g2u5/pekajaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/40947490912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/86557531759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ebae9b94d---gobepimolobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47af2eac24---68060986437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6ce7289cd---fawetogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29b4be46053d4c4643bce904f7e07ec7/miroxoduzokexiwamowegew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5020l42mf2v8ps9tasm6uiauib/11033616446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalipublisher.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/detanelivam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holmeslawfirm-iowa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/43969573850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufrlov7vlji755metspbilqvs0/19674542278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f845d564f2---62735088419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=simple+formal+letter+examplePDF 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_off0000e9ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9EA 17348 bytes
SHA-256: e55d6a29ae368bc0b2a77353962f2084af14e5e3bec4a1545cec9afed49506ee
font_01_sfnt_off000116f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116F6 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 350d8493b75507b9ee382e45269684350f1e4c5875ed25541e4e4784c3d16aff
font_02_sfnt_off00012e9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1