Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c02495b35a06c6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:51:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: edd4a4a90ded425fb01a5e424a6f149b SHA-1: 60ec8dc17fc5696df26beadbb2a50d1566a37de0 SHA-256: 7c02495b35a06c6cb3f986cc50d75d421cb677c85ffb132eb1ac0ddda78325d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics indicate the document contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3m4sga6183u9djkadq6a81c78/binawidegixamik.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://iringmalaysia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45831975297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81b3c9775f304a0efaf093df1c0e5772/82615787240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8eba3fe028defffbd08b9ee68e44ab7/natosifutawekekemesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aa97970eb0b94a62ff435a00149d981/basapexikilebabezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bf59e28e80fbc8dec1d664ca62d0ee8/mozifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612778ccd3681---82409741527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://museodegliarazzimarsala.com/userfiles/files/ludowekeninalipep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comptables-publics.fr/userfiles/file/rusazutakomirejigiliwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rjbmachinery.com/d/files/sezogekerugit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ha1eilt372rk691gbi685op66/4656764764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c52588a54ce---63218260086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gites-les-bardots.com/userfiles/file/88413994149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/84451237086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd9a0acb4cd---21348551369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/saxixemumerule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghedanang.com/media/ftp/file/97842168277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67bd4c1e67308fea6a37fa4c62f23bd8/xupejotiwosemof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3224205263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpisiluman.com/contents//files/93865713951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609122ea0cac0---detajobirekudegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atiksigorta.com/files/10117002005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/614c97438fc58169d30f382239227dac/39022263885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81e82cdf63---53367505701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/1032988106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/bonutosawubewoxamek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=state-of-the-art+of+reverse+osmosis+desalination+pdfPDF 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_off0000cedb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEDB 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 9c28254e47c321282a34a8f96c5e4a045199335c9f6411cb4373f6b7d1c3e5ea
font_01_sfnt_off0000e805.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE805 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 0ed0bc425879546cd8c7a2325127c119eb375b9843e6de0d9791d1a2dc4f7004
font_02_sfnt_off00011518.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11518 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1