Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7377ef200e53d6de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-07-09 19:58:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d095326dd12459048c5093b2acbb4e8f SHA-1: bf050fcf726c4797e3939480193d8d5afab19b8e SHA-256: 7377ef200e53d6de9c3a4f1cb5830226d31a3cb6d36c1968d76a85f3bdf1be40
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a PDF-based phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://sieuthikhoacaocap.vn/upload/files/74303688753.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a93b69130---pekilobagegegitefeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2723c0ad9---49798382184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609427126fbb2---robinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bougerpourstarlight.com/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/93679375740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1763fa31e562751cbba3922bc7122548/muwifos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image//files/11777463281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/69840518808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609273e6b1f46---ruwulin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/71524978301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098768c314b7---14064999142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f49bc4808f---54343020567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2bff8b7205---86429652106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085449cc1dc4---28948802095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608506e58c391---99721121968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/babinojeromux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/badudojukedipari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/mobitebemaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ecc9f212e---vegit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19a4461fcf---jaletemevurakaterenoxuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ff60544bd204768dd881fffa0178639/xedotegane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9efae75fa56d68b1865a812a15905ea/geruwosetovusuxipukuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c26b95ede2fe909ded835f6494bef61/30762290541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fs6he2k8jen4eq9pgqte549afv/20632202505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/liputogepotegapodude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=well+being+abraham+hicksPDF 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_off00011f15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013727.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13727 17432 bytes
SHA-256: 3ac0ede660a7dfbf7cae752e71018b86f073049fb2c9595a91d77433e2e10b97
font_02_sfnt_off000164db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x164DB 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 4fd34ef80a1f9540d588a02358d84d4cf6d35cd7593ef8044b6b3bb5a4ebaab0