Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7857555cfddb694a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-08-09 05:00:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ff1d9fd583d58a71add73a1e597bcaef SHA-1: 53f0728786053487df4bfa819da09a548bd59612 SHA-256: 7857555cfddb694af239f82eef12750d9e0345b2a01db6abfca7647639f8ec7e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content, potentially for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607487aaf4001---4670355926.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39bfc8653c39acc2a2354992727cffc6/kefubexeroboxovozapani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/80485026162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc8fd6da7468ed45cd9abd8ee87030b5/55884967709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulsamemorialclassof71.com/clients/84987/File/62515136944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalroomplus.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/zakimumokudiwataso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/45553264296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b01e6d5d73ec9a999e8f863187ae451/lorawevexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/76927957828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.antoniopopolizio.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jixuvijutapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4089657b8b---gegemafafefiposotabiwebug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kraftyz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gozud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/50900511947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/vinaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/79291217394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcaosms.org/media/ftp/file/zoremujakukokaguluwifuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konferencii.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/judupudiwuperevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2461529ea1---30533367972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a6ae586c9dc1f6dd4df12ae523baf8b/31799014574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7260471e19b980b7960974ba877f3980/xutukefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ur5sdjmgiqss3uh62a8si9hc8p/89753043013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608469955dde0---zutuzatofixelumefedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ul8en587c200rn3ula95sqvk1/36679520892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landroverbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23625343314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d018bca637---38156199516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=mod%C3%A8le+de+lettre+de+remerciement+%C3%A0+un+ministrePDF 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_off0000ce6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE6B 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 3d92c4a44b207c64581d6307e9abf43088a5201d4b81706072dac6ea72a87386
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF03 17460 bytes
SHA-256: 82146234ededc3e89cfdc7c0abd397e77fbadd7a8c9912f9e3fed578bf37dbbd