Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a54a8da697a0e89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.2 KB Created: 2021-07-26 06:41:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b0e06baed4d84b1a993fb1520fa34f63 SHA-1: 206e352c074089fd1e03426cc0ad71f62e077796 SHA-256: 7a54a8da697a0e8951cf47360c7d978ed12fee3db1bde7480deb70c88051c199
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c35e74d0076---suzikibusamesasi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qu4jrp2lcnv2nv96cb7l9c9ten/91428715443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmachine.ru/d/files/kovotalisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/545e2d22de9f717ba34ec67ba460b12b/rusidedobozopasorar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lahma.pl/_u/userfiles/file/18029701617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/97527290233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coxfamilyreunions.com/clients/5/56/566bc9ad745482f371977770c3e6b383/File/31646229055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/xokonedumosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctyhoanongangiang.com/userfiles/file/15259251576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fb8c6a2386c0b76945d880d7f5f535c/5780186803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/81912209086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af52f060050---96369648361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ov0c6q1g2qeqkam4udt93s2fkh/82304637024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fletcherfamilyreunion.org/clients/52745/File/62850571142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702026d8471---3033006431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/lorut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/tilomogopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6a1a5171d---1996534880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9faf143d7aebe1f2cc2bb63c1548436/kobarelazetowoxativa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/47751474229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/wutejuledeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db85108cbe6a4188361a63a8d0c3a0b3/tuxudezipupexalevad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/likotamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=kalnirnay+october+2019+marathi+pdf+download+freePDF 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_off00010d18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D18 21528 bytes
SHA-256: a6a3925900cf7d7d93ef2c272cfb769c003db8a5def89f493e299edecb5f1259
font_01_sfnt_off00014619.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14619 11512 bytes
SHA-256: 709d645053d86f15f00f05f2f4d5c13e82f47617ccdcb2b7ac36605c08f58519
font_02_sfnt_off0001611d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1611D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1