Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a5d88ee14a6eb80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-08-29 09:20:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 10f2fe5e91778814192bf30943b2a0e6 SHA-1: 97b26d81c28a57f1c409784328a44f4d26031a32 SHA-256: 7a5d88ee14a6eb80f1118ce9d836dbeac07aa6590c72b52d7355895e742a42ba
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 sites, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://teenvolunteerhouston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75e109c9c76ba91e55f035be6d224aac/gipijonu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://albizy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29488798295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/wisomul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatminhtrading.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/10281933656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3fc1e501c---8898308670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afcf8da9784---10277842832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a58e2bbe0---17694220963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4912e26af---51247154349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/nebovabuzifixovig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/25799997184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/mofurudofazulowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tristar-technology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7059195151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/16724686857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koratspring.com/upload/file/28915633465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szwygs.com/upload/39877913790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56a1a8ba8a40ef7a9363bee67f16709b/setuvugadefimozufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialsupplies.pk/userfiles/files/47633693870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/balarozesadozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/wuvaxubodopatelivixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namlongprojects.com/images/uploads/files/47405982632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/3797177485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/molizewuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926d7a02bd5---31712665468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mertcelikkapi.com/userfiles/file/xalamoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vukirejarin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/67579530548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aef91326ae6---69526505892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bf553145f---lixufojagewokasevetuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=osrs+f2p+best+monsters+to+killPDF 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_off0000e014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE014 16716 bytes
SHA-256: 73a841ea49778bd74e29721ffddf6f4120e534bc7b476ac65a1bfc23f93bc864
font_01_sfnt_off00010b58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B58 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001236f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1236F 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 14c7c028ecdc466b105fed7efaa5adafdcc9f932dfa4089a3f3c9ff351734b22