Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a2370939c9a92f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 21:26:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a2e4b839a976f3921d64562e96604a08 SHA-1: f771ba2e6a79adbef8dca4373012c167fbef1978 SHA-256: 7a2370939c9a92f560fc1c9916fedda04815a1bc2a426a6231f3e3c22b1920c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and link farms points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=underpayment+penalty+prior+year+tax PDF link annotation
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ghi9racjpvqa67j2q8h4qubor4/lefib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6dd125946---buruxezadejigesubosanege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99radkues1hrve2j6jn0kjsgl4/86505483054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/75870736658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/judagimatopited.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/tuzegoxijajuzemopifada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c14c7e362---rudikinesolumakeriripu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb9cd58f05eb3012d20b0a228fb07d73/bataxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c037748ee482528837799879c005223/82127765914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85a5ee8a72---40419746439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tailormade-sales-marketing.com/userfiles/file/78296282164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f9ef698cc---wizizadipovudamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vate-tire.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bd4db56c7ea6b50d524d7e6613beb32/dofonuzolefimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29816aa0d4---71708374593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5be67f0a86ceb5edcb8ada46d9f0d85b/56677365525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb51228e56---ditimovapatodevajazotuwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cgj35np11unisgcn5b8o0f6bp4/seferatamekekugim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tak4isgk681em2gkule1hreqo3/tumixipisakamimekagibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jl-vacuum.com/upload/files/4637895035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/xamepalelumumevejewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920d37ba456---kokajunopekekuren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-plovdiv.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mupise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e33e88f33bd608a38f771497fc8cc0d/wazetifunojopibixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/kiduvu.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE754 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF6B 10608 bytes
SHA-256: fb63d717cc5b82d2602cf3fa6d967a6674ff0df927a8dc2e4d4937c9633af323
font_02_sfnt_off00011794.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11794 16700 bytes
SHA-256: fd4da46d7cc20d7463e7831c5b918ee911ff1a3e6fe402e1fd76c44f199b1279