Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7470012f66e3a236…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.0 KB Created: 2021-04-30 23:08:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: a858a4f70369bb069a0aa5e4cf7ce1cb SHA-1: f3a7034324ff252c5b31f636e56946c1c0097ae3 SHA-256: 7470012f66e3a2361609d52607e08eff07687d7a39da7a4c016085a603c4a529
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads, likely to distribute phishing content or further malware. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple links to compromised WordPress sites suggests a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e561cf1926587e4a08c749c5393435b0/53396798674.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/983c451ade5e10e06aebdc5672a1b905/29330972345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37c15bae36bc076189b7a81873678b8c/lojimotowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3pp1lucu57c5kgf6ci4p52040/4140633326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f56f491660---xorod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c734b22d8c---42496623581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/tuxivuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608555b3ea23d---gadivugezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5420d186621bf3240aba6eba77b2c950/72020164352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20b3gb5ala88a0tldnm18nt0k4/78839627897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608835e005924---89375034625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742e6dce5d7---nisefasozatanugumepelugev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98d4e35bea0207a1f27bbbb4bd27ccb7/39615552165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e9597e212e845813de76b7ce082e790/xagawirujifalapojexunube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b605693e5e8abed64d428f446482bb41/zezuka.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/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=noun+quantifiers+worksheets+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c497.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC497 5348 bytes
SHA-256: d15ba30e342d4f7baf0958be448ff7c353fb5bb9f3df9ad4f2f5c24e6b1b0d5c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6E0 10756 bytes
SHA-256: d8b9cacedfbb8bef8310b61fb5ce0a5ce8e50c9006189f6cda2b3db7ece0310e