Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7502705f3d10b805…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-16 04:03:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f907fd5250985867fa267af81ad560ad SHA-1: 2eed82c2002f8459c2fad934b44ae71bcf288208 SHA-256: 7502705f3d10b8058953486a0358888386fa14198c289dfa9dda191bf46581b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be disposable. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination of the user's click.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608932392a22b---kapivefen.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/85083633808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ebd556613---33197868882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpspcb.com/uploads/files/fidezudobole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldbermanmaimonidesgolf2021.com/clients/0/0d/0d43fbb8ff91cab41fa1b056c0d912a9/File/libojidikasonojodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607501f5dd708---35537888098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a7544ae47---19493964740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d0dafa8a0786b04fe4ed3eb214384a5/76051823054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec96a304d3b---15291426109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://it-hair.com/userfiles/fonitabezovavuxofususi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/80271137588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a02bda3be734b94854cd2ea951718e40/maseda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb017bd4328---67885556988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/94778406412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6k2gat93tkfb745h1iellhfeht/87238858094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcad6dfe0d---30372363491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peusch.lu/userfiles/files/linux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///64427639454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/kekenorit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///fexunobagajogowugat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b34b51fc2---valig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a11c00eabb120b618cedfca6a4d14e35/94248546946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosyromania.com/media/file/17976796472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/defodamokixemuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e9b66b6c6---99792664249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+fear+of+small+holesPDF 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_off0000ea3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA3C 16848 bytes
SHA-256: a700e6ab55072556e6a58cf2f9ad421a270dde57d5d088afd04c84a40291a897
font_01_sfnt_off000115ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115CE 10148 bytes
SHA-256: aa41d5c83cf4e3302be14967c5c3dc6fab4088daffd6a2c9f4e900660e752501
font_02_sfnt_off00012c81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1