Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c0b1470408bcb31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-08-14 16:17:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 56a6d00ea198ff08826bc3960c3771e2 SHA-1: b6b16bdca5728cd6892fd7a0a067fc595948642e SHA-256: 7c0b1470408bcb31d25a571db412af6311f38b79245dd9075f19bce5a0d40fd6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially malicious URLs, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=500+recetas+de+cocina+vegetariana+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb45d0886e---30838284050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078286de9a44---nawugatubudufuvogubij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54061ef79cca5960b8b76c527dffc9ab/38401286884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catwalkdogcome.com/editor_upload_image/file/voluwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fewo-spreewald-schoetzigk.de/brandenburgtag/img/editor/file/82685373957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/62051474280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f62cbdfb16---woweliden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexpert.com/userfiles/file/pituvawazalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/dadonajemitowibufegamalir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://path.mn/userfiles/files/75358388883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3e4379558---3978518809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd8b33acdc---xixipapebixineneruxisam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc6cf85b5e---wazajesigiwosufalar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081836f69347---13893234642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h98qpf5k9g8n3l32m9rht808u4/vulubudinegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jogforbigt.com/clients/6/61/61f7a61d17da296148a50ccd59c4a139/File/ditalem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc8c463029---50866251086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/812eaba691777a9e7cc59cb80856cc9d/joguluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmetrix.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6589976539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a93fe35410afca82870e30baa70e6de/73206675658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93506842660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08niqeucqie1t6h0381r92frum/tinevaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexperte.de/userfiles/file/46705663113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e274f9f084---15246879680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/lowolawewujelobapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD689 17340 bytes
SHA-256: 3da85d2441aa47a66d85ad7bda84022ec00962393b3ebf34fa3d12e30e5b5f9b
font_01_sfnt_off0001029c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1029C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ab3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB3 10976 bytes
SHA-256: cf3557ea3c28a91f0940d70cab81565701b82d05ca749eb8507d9f679097e3b7