Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7340c3c34287694f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

131.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 20:05:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 95c870e553ac8983a42fc9c107267b25 SHA-1: 79fabe0d4aa22aba743e52a06be5a44ae4a04307 SHA-256: 7340c3c34287694f4f7be9932b84af5c084754ef150d5640e6a1b43811f3abce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware hosting sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings are sufficient to infer a malicious link distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908eef290f8---37424967193.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd49a66e96e---82979283333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc15ba247ea3e4fd68218b0ad3472986/68006371193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/69422420829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97213631502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c52824f828---karifedezajejiratosatema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m3csrl.com/file/81147314365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qei1mqu1711ar4729qni5413t0/dewirorivozokega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0019ae3f6fe968cf119fbd0030f9bfa/55903989915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/95348645858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70bd8c11d0c532648279fb9eb050c4b3/43475345558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f46138b031852c55e3ff56158255f8da/vorufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429210900459930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5th9j7evmdk3ri320b867cnkab/93162716367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b3d41768f70---pupugovejumowizolomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c64389c976---83877856460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811b953187a---murikovalomatelasiwativiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucity69.com/clients/861769/File/36540120445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e8229428d4---diwawodedodokemozip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/383567ec8abf4bd8a7a8f26298c3623a/86047903843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02ea54a10f---31386259921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advicetao.eu/pictures/file/mujur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=online+bus+reservation+system+project+pdfPDF 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_off00019e10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19E10 11356 bytes
SHA-256: bd8b4e3711e6fc2059d93e4b3f3447334eb05b2b606bd3d907a048876837d882
font_01_sfnt_off0001b8a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B8A1 17876 bytes
SHA-256: 61830a65a0c40a156b30360c37e89ed45cd4b6aa634dadbbe71b484abba9c5d3
font_02_sfnt_off0001e769.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E769 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1