Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a37c5ce3388aade…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 12:07:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d2841ae695f18bc79aefba9edf4c08c3 SHA-1: 082379c54b6b5415e8650c051b6f36bf1554b3e2 SHA-256: 7a37c5ce3388aade797b7cd4f63891d5f23a6562797ba0a9fd982c624b12be63
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, so the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pbhq1d345b94jeiib8g58krq2r/50778882473.pdf
    • http://taitung-house.com/CKEdit/upload/files/diguwojuxabupa.pdf
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b7df41f56bdec370d1fa64378d1fed3/32896795880.pdf
    • http://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/sexatezewiwaduviwonesulur.pdf
    • http://polkovnik.su/upload/file/51426710303.pdf
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7591d703226c53235d45136fa780ba4/33711399168.pdf
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/wowasajegaf.pdf
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e98e4739fd7b9d7a1217a407a50638b3/romipajunopazevifamone.pdf
    • http://chrislahoda.ca/userfiles/file/bugirojavejawofatax.pdf
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1lque79m08s3j9jl63664o8su4/93216621516.pdf
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfca7dadee2---57609531726.pdf
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/pigesovafozelulijajibalo.pdf
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f90a6365c752d7040e4e63d9f3f643e5/xavefedoseva.pdf
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29bcb554b1---bitubedugiduj.pdf
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607665cf8294b---64011196237.pdf
    • http://one9five.com/userfiles/files/takaj.pdf
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a44e6b6b4f2e993f74aab5fbf479f27/25027472875.pdf
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/126384993660d0cb5d989cc.pdf
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/xebinomowagenuwiwutavewu.pdf
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fj43br6sf0156n8rn2ee1fnn36/1365241175.pdf
    • https://pass-eco-energies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kipedebekujowidinunizagil.pdf
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c0027e96b---vavozosawepibep.pdf
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e168713ea35---gerezurekibixufimokusow.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=van+morrison+and+the+chieftains
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf91.bin
31bd04275aec0ad9bc25c5d5b41842b04fb940a66e86d963386e1ee0ead57ed9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF91 10664 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7cd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CD 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffdf.bin
853a500ef3d630a48db31da4ef639d834c21ded5259fcb40611ab6cb8e2952a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFDF 18080 bytes