Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7769ac72d5bec681…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 19:30:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 309b9d446a1cda2a96323861a5f03722 SHA-1: f660fd4fc68754757788e7070c3287f6267f813d SHA-256: 7769ac72d5bec6810e2322810f076b29b1be2e3e79cbae9050f60e216a2243d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content, likely for phishing or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=danielle+colby+kids PDF link annotation
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074ae7508ce5---32314876670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e47e69f72ab642ded89347c9292858b9/7735297101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608300aa4bed2---xudimew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/rubulexupipuviduvez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1d9a663223---kipolawuwazinizegukokamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1db9e3aae0---widenuwekaloxotuxasidilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837ac09bb4b---wemelalasoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a451c421a88---fitidom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/59009443718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurerom.com/userfiles/file/92919084317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daa792c2b5d---vefibakodusidugal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd965361d34309949f15576a3e6e2953/sagijetojusos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d208f9aa36---81744996388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/06/23/file/41920001668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce6b602f1a---fegofakuxegikizibigovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/manaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c34c13132f---43508409021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/37496823376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/sumizijililekaroxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k39tg05n5n0iqdgg5slksr9tol/miduxilepujatifisogadoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bougerpourstarlight.org/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/ligesixijotinijis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/29827054926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc773a5b80---37586542961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010372.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10372 16164 bytes
SHA-256: fd494554c7a7a2c4488382a78096c535ff133766c7221992be4f6a58596b2467
font_01_sfnt_off000118e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118E9 10512 bytes
SHA-256: eebbb24efae1585eaebfa63bdeff35fb8bce115d6235bf029867e7cfb6e09749
font_02_sfnt_off000130ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130EE 20316 bytes
SHA-256: 6f55827fc75ece7c0e0774d096064d36bead7214ff935aa40da851a852375934
font_03_sfnt_off00016264.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16264 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1