Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7413a2ed8c458e81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-20 19:00:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d7fa7955ff2987e20ddca26a3cb7a758 SHA-1: f55d298bd79b270d756dd330311eb464a372ab08 SHA-256: 7413a2ed8c458e816c72df5f15e60cefb996004125eb8850f82b7dde767ab17a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host and distribute malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a link farm on compromised CMS uploads is a common tactic for distributing second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://princeverma.in/uploads/files/korujij.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b656a3490c8---54037661116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6abb654a1a---68317911754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a97718a1c2d8acc7da6910b07a62aa43/fetazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821e3b216bf---34392462127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ebb663ca1---luzukalikejenomevunovudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61452596f907f1a4cd5b1b047c88532f/lupuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eacbc1a4745e963ca3549d6254429344/56672198044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://an-ocn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vokivoruguwavafama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50467215650987e480e32c93777cfccc/75777963583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/zuxogetofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puppometalli.eu/file/46415673968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14fab2a4cd68e0cb5f0f9082f282d816/rakefuvinosupalugumati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/5491960477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f55a4099474d87951070715bf42184f5/wipepolafojuduzekaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sporteambiente.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jadobewaposawokib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/4734174289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c14c1f5a3c1---fofovobewegesuzevilowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b990b0262e3---zimekubizijafurekomiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/rapalirinepilixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mystruggle.uk/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a90e8ebef39---6066873574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=what+can+we+learn+from+the+storyPDF 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_off0000eb97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB97 17264 bytes
SHA-256: de0dedff6c6d5b69fbabd8dc0e0d7d83c630a299b6f51e253a999ab367b2dad5
font_01_sfnt_off000118b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130D0 10700 bytes
SHA-256: b4d758190a3649650f0bed4ba90aaf648ebaafb7b15092494aa91ff9b9ad5d76