Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b275f4a6a82e659…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 09:35:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6358c7fa0a7dd0ccd8a3795077ce4d66 SHA-1: eb61d7da0014baa297c1921257b3d0a71e3aca4c SHA-256: 7b275f4a6a82e6592174eb858ddb7a989858ad9b6054ac88aafbdd60a36fde9a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to obscure the final destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3tj9jn7ma6vijhbm26sf630079/pegisilekixoninimedur.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ongnuocdenhat.com/upload/files/48196588730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hd8m1bilqc2s0fctp1go7h57kg/lokanotovosiwuvaloxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608165b44f6b7---93400558619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbfe8c835a0---migukare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c88f3c481f00b165468f3e33850224b7/29051945309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74021a4de9---wataxukagaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a773874b207---vedurodix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabic.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gesapuvomabolefapuwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09b90d6bb1---17554548188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tragadsonisurat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6032109798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d7f5a598aade4c834d2b1f66aa3f5ce/28859751559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/padenenametexowubofun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8868c8b3f217494a3c342438c578488/27440508912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3b76bdf3b---40966251879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/funowepujitununamolexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaccugiare24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/fuxufiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609464e0815e3---26559281261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e88b632912---54994022937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f31baba06f---vasodokitijilizopejew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/linupixuwawasiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sp9jn1rcf8tv7h36jsihn9dg34/23441779661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb29584d1de---57151876019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68go2lig9mci4c33ngchmt8372/bogodokalek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=resignation+due+to+low+salaryPDF 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_off000111d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000129e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129E6 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 5c27c1ca04215917c0b25c47fba7e3cdf3e9ce47061fd9d45ac90f9a67162f7f
font_02_sfnt_off0001573b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1573B 10768 bytes
SHA-256: babe5d1784c74a4bf77b690b46979f80cda17d6259237c0ece9e97a2625bfa5f