Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a4f1ebdc3a32154…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 20:09:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6b74bfe225fc93817374194cd9feb7bf SHA-1: f1585ff2fbb7b4840123486bdb560d713871d033 SHA-256: 7a4f1ebdc3a321540c1539fd45cc954c59bc20dd8babe0e56c4702adc74316d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of links per host further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c197e75fc8---53618244684.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/8240322976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad926e01314---wonidimoxonaxejomifiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ldbrutvhqbosso11v4qr21bj4/valabika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/kasofov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/daposokivudal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/xunegafogope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortcrimea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62045711947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/neziguvepakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/mimegulorejemevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1h654bp0ta34ldj06du3vtecnr/59961892646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/sonap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87ae7d7138024d6ee07e8568a9d6b8f9/6642319840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidelishospice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80889923609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/16145129441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/dizabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/denogugigulaxavere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1bf789f1ad---goner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokemom2.com/uploads/files/42817163413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c53aeeb38---xozobafevejujabefapesole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a865b887d---42341245683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fqs01jejsgq3c7m9ihvspbmja6/22954038986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb673b0678---27170858301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+feed+my+dog+only+chickenPDF 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_off0000f459.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF459 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C70 10792 bytes
SHA-256: e898f94b9a3cb3cf8825a9051e02550aa5d3006892ec9e72bc076597219691c3
font_02_sfnt_off000124dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124DC 16940 bytes
SHA-256: 7f7c98c774a0853c3f2e346329e01abf266641283f3d5a71cddc59fd25c60877