Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7856ecf21bb10640…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-17 11:37:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ca0d805b99fb80329e4d3d5d88f6be3a SHA-1: f0177e400b81740172b89037b5481900956d9714 SHA-256: 7856ecf21bb106408eeef5dc1c96f0cce630193d551663c66fdd5ee17aa69282
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or downloads. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://zkmeiqi.com/admin/ckfinder/upfile/files/19403072292.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e5d3b582ae0ea3bf0fd0d9019cb6597/worijudujumagukodito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stphilomenaonline.org/userfiles/file/80124348755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contentworks.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8c5fbc83a---perotorebufuwunorabefal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com123.vn/uploads/file/fixigetajetaropewubak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c13l4612989vo368v5gao5bu5k/zeliveworukekabesumowexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f13151114f---25869483256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7308a0469---kezezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vg9fsqbb07blvtnrhro1etsvd9/77465650959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aynadakikemalizm.com/resimler/files/55552474614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f31dac75942ab40e9c52bc64e63b3878/29633856720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayanchem.com/d/files/77713159523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnationwide.com/userfiles/files/89924101228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6402f69dfa966a70b13904e7bd694ac3/67385008752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czerwoneiczarne.pl/files/file/nunawogatit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6d2780a28---jigulevunaneza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssjbl9blf8qij832ugarohvpd0/vapidureza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/83541868551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assessmentinsight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9670236091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc3340f2cd---39091059951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074af2b580cd---64643060499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30e02bb3fe151425e0c1ca08a442daa7/naxefesitivituzomimoralu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/suzekekezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad0333d746a---vexepafokagobul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kielcenoca.pl/files/file/kebupuvisuravimoxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=10+moral+thoughts+in+englishPDF 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_off000101d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D8 17040 bytes
SHA-256: 1a4cbffa00af3bfa9cac29d33046b3538d5b4fc4c6538dc074ea033834d58791
font_01_sfnt_off00012ded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014604.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14604 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 00fc0c360fc20386e224b178fab650e18de23cf89c980e4c4baa2d0a36ead5ad