Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7864e5666d9ebe00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.0 KB Created: 2021-06-15 15:54:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8fe1d42d7b8cd35d903011a0ddd27f7d SHA-1: efd22ebaae8d1db7420b2939a514363883511f27 SHA-256: 7864e5666d9ebe00ee8075a1a9b0d5384542642bf4fadc064bf29c9355635e27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to PDF creation and a search term, reinforcing the lure aspect.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chatterjee+physiology+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aaounmjs8fv2cec14idkvs0fd/letesido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a5572e63976e23aebc62dcee0375ec2/ruwofopuroriket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4342632e74---56500267547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5v0hmjccn0hb601dj5rsl183g7/34030835365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a18nd6u08h686sjbdg29nfdckv/wutedaribugaxidefikekipid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rinducm1.com/contents//files/tujoxakofipadiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7cmtkphhbbck9u51g3n65qqf5/wuwipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/363cf12b49ec5d181e4d53461bd9c63d/pixafulutusuvefinizaliti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02f52d86cf887935aa4e48ed7606248b/63281361576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b614a7bfdc---xojegagabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4caa1054f5c48d624c56598213455f3a/17793780314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/346c02f1f44f023e991ff6af4b5a6767/jositapukotulinajefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac57d5db77a---rumarubewudipidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--arbeitskndigungsrecht-best-5zc.de/userfiles/file/gimobewabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomuraca.eu/userfiles/files/76960594190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC666 5592 bytes
SHA-256: bd96d61b93e9ef5d16aaba2d00b2fff92b9cb4dca26daf84e70426b93f528aa7
font_01_sfnt_off0000d95f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD95F 9940 bytes
SHA-256: e8145c7cb9b740969d089ef3c1d58bebde8c332a34cb2cd189b297f58ba41f08