Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7856354c62a37e90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-08-11 10:11:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6744d5041d19c4050f6c2edaf9de90e4 SHA-1: b496aa8a58f2587a944307d2204ca147bdea67cd SHA-256: 7856354c62a37e90bda4a48f562e8691f02f6e882224aa540f0de3b821d34ed5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://sumbulefendiegitimvakfi.com/resimler/files/95706815293.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c995a9eda26---12814061341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/basozosenesososomogapigen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/440239b9c7aafe863d4bf772d73bae7b/96890719757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b71ce78219b---89659272774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e36bda807---zigejuzoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apricomm.com/userData/board/file/90011658214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aiuggce3shgsr8r04jgrlv69mb/vejatefulujejowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51eb093d22---modewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecebc5303393fbfe8cb97f0ca501141b/movug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26180405515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086550f4f9c4---30749258323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/884967856651625494877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/39737054593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/53450134730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcscnnrcc27qe62plkh7upt9f3/74166781508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609845e03df6a---memagaligakanelufivopul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/71857368428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b64798454---96209029037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archifolder.com/userfiles/files/90577384544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5edd10bfbe---60206078498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cornucopiafrederick.com/uploads/files/93091217374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkquiz.com/userfiles/file/1001789567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d0b4c9faf---mivofike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c8781710b---dusuvanabenewofogujenef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609240685514e---95708958539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+sync+liftmaster+garage+remotePDF 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_off0000c4ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD04 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 7166d7a048b7825e26976c670eccfd4dd95e6ccc4ee153b41617f0d80545f8fb
font_02_sfnt_off0000f62c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF62C 17480 bytes
SHA-256: 9adc0d43b9bbf3fb6b2e61c04d663c03a295f48993b0c33711af75479e2a78e3