Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7816d52addcf6df4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:27:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8fa8e63375adbe163a411a51492b9894 SHA-1: 8c63084c335d2ca85e5d8ec38cdfaee1ed14e28e SHA-256: 7816d52addcf6df4117bbfb38160a1a87f108dcfb88140c92f7e17f3e225305d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document's structure as a link farm, with many distinct hosts and UTM parameters, supports the conclusion that it is designed to lure users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=another+word+for+jurisdiction PDF link annotation
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2b5507fe2bcef82a54e18cd6e0d270f/96214051874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0caf3c22bb---1671283800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b8c7b2f505---gebojekemazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fab5d97227---35443403748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umutisi.com/umut/upload/files/kadesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v0jqugjcuib621g29gbgdlf5p4/35543367963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078654e3114e---japopekolagodimawiketewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johncarroll1967.com/clients/1/18/1896e795ecc2602204d707ec4e69586f/File/18922633183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c84c475a5a4---32224938208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suvagcentr.ru/userfiles/files/38572852456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/he12site8bq9i0sqd5v9p0bs17/lawufekibigasopanilupunuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/68532653297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7525c1e831---gidufexulowufere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/90208346289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3f3e3bb59c1eb3aa861dbd92ae2ae71/19527184306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kasic85qutj0nc5atesam87qe8/lesutepilaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc887051ca---73347687839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0be8a9221bd405226e97baef3f13b473/koserujoketozukafowoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728b04842b6---98546446137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.biz/userfiles/files/naduwowaweri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a305149f5fe---29591176776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e95769a2bfd33c0c9d9a92da30d8447c/rewolere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fletcherfamilyreunion.org/clients/52745/File/pukivovofowufib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lvtkcvlt30i74fr30ujtita34o/97094513223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/4791054876.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d09b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD09B 17824 bytes
SHA-256: f0a317819765bb958858fdc314d4162ba79cdbc955bff7f81bacd06ee0e975df
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011765.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11765 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 1f4cee0459ea555d4cb9b06d30b64a78ffeb8370e21d22a2deb86e306a7ef44b