Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7253ffc3df8a078d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

124.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:50:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: c54fa9d4615d910c1a1b08854b5caad2 SHA-1: e665ec3198ace4957811f7d976e70514fd7beb26 SHA-256: 7253ffc3df8a078d2beed5acc710cde62c135ce94a9907b9e6ec515bbed51695
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious payloads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically a phishing or trojan distribution campaign. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9899

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.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607049b007966---medolu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/55807173954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e15161585b82342cb580bae79d1b93f/sebiredopijud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/kedaweran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4a32bb187---jotimajunugovudefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giant-nano.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/wibugirimafafelajopemomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a669c4dee2---poximunisavuxewema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merrygoldholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41040740416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/kiritafigowipijezetuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dighakanchaninternational.com/FCKeditor/file/31476719205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/87569653859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asken.as/bilder/file/xusilasozabali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7119766df9a4aa504045b3bebf933760/gaduviputunan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samocvet.org/foto/ck/files/kuvukosutaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6367d9f808d01d02d0ae10ca5ffb8fae/99925578301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuacuontoanphat.com/upload/files/53647631885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5478270bd2---23478015792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbikese.hu/files/file/43477056236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fijesitamivitebaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b61d3ec9c5b1edf48a242c2347da6a89/busafavatorovariliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jt43ms5ek23v30tumih6siqk4/pujopisojemidowis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cefdda3b8d117760150ed5651fc2ed36/mizaresutalevaruxadigoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruiguoex.com/upfile/files/2021/08/28/jesexakesusufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surrattsville69.com/clients/8/81/8122276c22396d7fa0996010cc369f50/File/kizesidajijumonumubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoannalisatinelli.it/userfiles/files/gowezamusadid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xutricolor.com/uploadfile/files/bupesipatagela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=nihon+kohden+eeg+service+manualPDF 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_off00017fad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17FAD 10952 bytes
SHA-256: a6d1dfed2d7bebe96eb1c0e7ebd2a45f39a463f94a4744e2d01e6a57ca152470
font_01_sfnt_off000198ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x198AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001b0c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B0C0 19988 bytes
SHA-256: df355c9243e189a2b7bc325f0962906f3a9e3b213dbf3365e07942bb784be241