Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a059b03ffe911d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-26 10:36:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 65b5f9425b6eacae0c8fb6d571967637 SHA-1: 6b6b482b7956ac94d2e4420ebcc876386449b63f SHA-256: 7a059b03ffe911d7f4bf19eabc8ee7a1941408e58106e783a932108c98e1b4a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics and detection signatures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h235jan163l4skhkmae7blh021/21280696571.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chorland-dining.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/63313043536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cs4m0p9024cfon8cs8ll6d0ai1/52447833943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136be1a07664---zijapolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47fc88b959a8794edc9d6247edb37f67/xutemebijelomapom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6rf5ftmu33e6nje2apcjeq91ou/sixil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediaworld.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bixakoxakalitujulome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcfbfd3033e3f29d23eff593422e961d/fiwojanigilotiwutimavor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/89687693260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drcleancenter.com/uploads/files/202109110812593666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bio86.fr/userfiles/fichiers/64787934307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ee6788d0c---lukesoxidilesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/tibed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/kivuketulaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buren-kompanie.de/userfiles/files/2567777556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-property.pl/userfiles/file/vegumefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santaclara.com/wysiwygfiles/file/rowudenasakedigezajamini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youzedu.com/ckimages/files/20210917211227908401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unite-chem.cn/upload/files/xilixobitifokajigazim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/wogiworukifetozake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o2opr.co/userfiles/files/sogizivijoxakozaseviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandenzobv.com/image_uploads/file/61901578041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showdoimovel.com/files/files/pibolutesekewiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citlak.com/admin/UserFiles/file/35317335064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=signal+info+appPDF 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_off0000b9d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9D9 10108 bytes
SHA-256: 74ecce7a52f70badb901e88797d9a20a3c610b225715b589fb6b751c1f29e3de
font_01_sfnt_off0000d073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD073 18104 bytes
SHA-256: daefe5b7a52eb1cb6d59fc21e4fbf0afec38a589209b7358d1ad8ce436fb05fe
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1