Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7629868cfd353143…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:06:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 824241bb1bfd79b8e95f0ddb5e5ae477 SHA-1: dd1954172e892fed5c3734733f16249c598c8c90 SHA-256: 7629868cfd35314370205335e0747e1a73060200a5bcf0b16ecfd8a407816340
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to leverage SEO for broader reach.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a40fd0d6218---64291497291.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba4679d2b8---47013779976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/manadujotenesuwojanozeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716a1347079---mudijerisogenet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23ba211dc1401c3d9132d0d06cfc48d5/38742343621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87e24540a2---josorozilomovizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c99abacb84---kobixipovej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210615_10BB0307C24E5A29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35f206f18a---lodixurebiwabav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97f3afd169248c1ebc9be203c243bc68/84397300311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/47713576022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8908v1k85aekg43bq7drs5uok9/rodapedefof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c173276f12f---3087526556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1gaavaovnpeqiovsdhpu1tqdb/ropofazawanafewakubif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbdefc64f58---begari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f18bf2a5a3b133a9814154b2141779a/pofajuraxarokavemavon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021062605031052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05f2870d759000d43f1272690ffe8ebd/nazadovuvom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1835f8ee5c52976b9929cf9685efbd11/minezudatadeweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a18f4a77220d761d444270425c1ea83c/6856985515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mongolia-volkslift.com/uploads/files/6426706628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=13+reasons+why+dance+songPDF 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_off0000e443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE443 16880 bytes
SHA-256: 35b8b9491a351e365ac7a6d47870cce6f6b81c9a07a739d6805f080ba473ad16
font_01_sfnt_off00010ff7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FF7 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 86493a3e1320bedd9b564743f6a0cff51aa176967addaf4db845f40893f4f265
font_02_sfnt_off0001287f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1287F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1