Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7843d528f2b464ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-07-15 20:30:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6df3d4562cb0e9827a4492f993e45434 SHA-1: c974b966305a76611d42014fa92012812ed28f2a SHA-256: 7843d528f2b464ad554fc37959377653c16df9f709efda5dddd053e567cc3f6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple detection engines, including ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised sites, indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d77f77b001---32068086002.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f468b08cd9---merejuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44284984487fea5f37c417e8c14e614b/zasapijupipupasotov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e94151996---2789115308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/gadekade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/2634792126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/13035369051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bvsaigonbinhduong.vn/uploads/files/43292822691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a14c2ad387d---4542599904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyandeepjkss.org/userfiles/file/84696890018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706c999297d---tebuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3p96g0srh4cqsgbq9cdke5lb97/28896692350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatyab.com/basefile/bainbookcom/files/34415919370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13428a2e6f5f194bc66651dfa58fcb78/xamemazolazapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/88720008727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/latilugafikipexevuzujala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/vopulusenavifufurivuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/5002560193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c40c86291e8---10196168223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blesk-stroy.ru/userfiles/files/26920458771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/68264270182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/huqtd7234i4ln1o133sgro63f7/dakakifeduvep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077559128cd5---pawowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=rain+wind+sounds+for+sleepingPDF 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_off00011708.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11708 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 36ea6d1f376b4c2f75f53cd515bfda12b11ec0a19c4ce8e14c993f6a2118b8c8
font_01_sfnt_off00012fde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FDE 16712 bytes
SHA-256: 11bc48eb539ca4c2c6694534e15c3ed817782b80b0bf2ac56f65013f881a72da
font_02_sfnt_off00015b56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1