Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7451a1aebd107207…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-08-08 00:06:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4e749db1b1786b07d6e1fd96bb61e503 SHA-1: 130d04947c5f74fa47488530b1c576e5b530fcb7 SHA-256: 7451a1aebd10720790f76bcd03b56bea777c38aa5c54fd42ace71637a4b7c938
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites. These sites likely host further malicious content or phishing lures, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the 'link farm' heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854482b2ed2---2110794059.pdf
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/527f8c6310b3776b322604f8bc47067f/99596106895.pdf
    • https://stbenedikt.ch/userfiles/files/32314768085.pdf
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910229101a1---nemejisapazulukum.pdf
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606df30aef253---kiwapivowavikop.pdf
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-28/20210628221423322319.pdf
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b80992d09536e34892d7e2dd86dd082/zazir.pdf
    • http://wowbond.com/upload/Fckeditor/file/letawulu.pdf
    • https://xehowo24h.com/images/ckeditor/files/90398172059.pdf
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/fevitibigezimagogiji.pdf
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3928a105e8d13f97290d663ea5f2499a/nivolekogufekovivaz.pdf
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161069b983cd7d---84337185007.pdf
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d2b9411ec---10212189471.pdf
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/96009815263.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e5d94c3ef---20307804745.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/710f6704d2e4de39f41e020eeea32d1a/ropudabapubegomafidegave.pdf
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca8cfd27f8---xikokexoradot.pdf
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/53666009648.pdf
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608828d1d9e01---60310608382.pdf
    • http://vlaamspatientenplatform.be/_plugin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79638664017.pdf
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca016b4157b---sujalasuvigifowab.pdf
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dbe829bfb4b81ea289da595df7b4758/22950997846.pdf
    • http://interreg-ipa-husrb.com/downloads/fazinaxilasofiloxuzof.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=august+2019+sat+answers
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eab9.bin
fddc1d3af9e8ccfa659cc24ab4714d79726457e74d36d8de347a61c36529fa62
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB9 17920 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011973.bin
9e5ee2a5fc418d81246e63c457e4eca31bf1dc327092e99e92a56a22ed97829a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11973 10656 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001323a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1323A 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00014a47.bin
172309685fe98285604e713d49568994867313c34855d65ac26f2a3d6e9690f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A47 1772 bytes