Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7340ad89ab73a00d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-05-06 11:49:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 605e36b71833d10a41e157b7b92de32e SHA-1: 59da89b647f31d7f957b4299c0ff46d3ba955d8d SHA-256: 7340ad89ab73a00d34de153728b33f4d4e6017d285793531fb99d6c4cbfdf776
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a deceptive lure related to an 'injury report'. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous malicious links points towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea013a6fc5---13912385739.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d4b60448b---nogadibotomejara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/982fd867738504c9de6c14cc8eb60d75/nadufixeluvotenaxiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e74c627a60b43e955e8eb43b8e60ec1/ranegojegolixadarepira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ffe4700d0---fumimugogijukuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49b0f15069e089510eba260c3912d311/lemipipum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/nivejixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608540acb2f2a---48858277022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707fc121d75---wudodizezesudapogesija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfvsi6k8m3e3hjpp7k8r6ubcla/3057407563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb40f9a5ec4dce9df495a813d39e4a46/sirapiriwulafigowaxevopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb4facf631---nanemawudibokirusodunato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731a6baba7e---8974954373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76419cfb264dc31c27af58dafb96a235/deseguzebekomeporimiwogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r62ib04bk34h3h9eiat9rc526h/38981044316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608552492e211---zudokosurobixojanubol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e0n3r7ioj2maavktk1igbq4g2/36077014913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=bengals+injury+report+week+12PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC6A 5556 bytes
SHA-256: 388621accd42045e3d75ce4fdcb1529f1821beab40c2ab7aa985026be3dc82ee
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF86 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 822c75e168a3cb5ec1487143284f6537c6a7e2ca837e053a565c4e8ffb305211