Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7510e436d653a5ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-07-17 03:53:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c3dc06630f4f957ff7964c8cd8f6f567 SHA-1: 6efb89d7bba03d9a3896db93a6f28573f589b4a5 SHA-256: 7510e436d653a5ed814d774b1c605fa916370c446d61bd1800a93ec9740417f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and link farm characteristics points to a coordinated effort to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89ba2eb494---34219986519.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dalaichau.com/files/5128937897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb86812f7be---29092632556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/566ebecc3c81fed5008ab49fe593a316/11602173961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winfielddeli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zusavufibogexasiwojedeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladakhtripmaker.com/userfiles/files/33313667457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimomoroni.it/userfiles/files/motuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/duvadilemapadoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/riwebiveno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718c94bfeb0---ruguwoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bb548661818dc7d0ce535c06d466487/xojatokegan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgd42.ru/userfiles/file/xoboxubozixoxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0b92085fa---zinadidab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summithighschool1958.com/clients/71652/File/96556368116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210624230343837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/zelowurokakobijadige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5456c2044e100d85a11c422f6e095739/zerinabigov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/tegewonipaxoxiwulogijilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/13884485109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvs0a6mtb2lsg7a5vrje5cjedl/44351888919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec64b70db2babe8a6da1568031c78fe0/15410292896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f2c7c9a04b5824b2f74064fb864af32/tukosomatapexakive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c525b2720071c3cb33c39cfd819d41e/3387447174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705f54b543c---58173067877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=violation+meaning+in+malayPDF 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_off0000fef1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF1 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 5252a383d678aa1ad09b504a25c50b96268032cbc391b5ef5e92bf756c8b5c0e
font_01_sfnt_off000115ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FF 17456 bytes
SHA-256: 6086eb0cf35dab19b4cd61eadbd2c0c57e1aef6e641a48340ad2ced489c103bf
font_02_sfnt_off00014350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14350 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1