Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c0f034f6586b540…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-21 04:13:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d75074829b221adcad9c264a27556443 SHA-1: 386281385370a002f0d1241c8eb2d12212b92904 SHA-256: 7c0f034f6586b540e51fb34df90f36807b876773625c3d74558f11adaa6b6319
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Numerous URLs extracted from the PDF point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or redirection attack, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://realxenon.ru/uploads/files/vijiri.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd5b7e983d---11837562297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ce48931dd---62495739345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53329333276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b58cc1d19---fegoluwupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609712c8bece0---kikowamezivifig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f71b3727b---fiwerofalojebufurazavox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2637950e7---tuvasixuruvodelujum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/634ektehcurjmd6gb83iqivp42/webefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22c70052e19858af2a3a98e1fbab648e/82792671587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/99033223028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyschultz.com/clients/72285/File/79923107923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1ad3265958---dilewutebimusagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3946156c09022a1c31e30fff4342070d/881288298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aae8a64f36c9fea96170c0aad9aa29da/jepabegazurado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2183bbb36f---mumiwabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8493acd7559954c40a745889fe71d44/70868778128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/334319ce1a83ea1e9be069757276baae/15180854501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1d1d7ca593---93727828817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samtee.com/admin/images/file/fupozonozodiwegivisati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/27173310968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7083f20970---36797650894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smclassof57.org/clients/34860/File/binepuvewuzagatigabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairerolo.com/userfiles/file/dupumalowetimejon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acta-mobilier.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67642677855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+copy+text+from+adobe+reader+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_off0000efee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFEE 16768 bytes
SHA-256: ce098f3074ce7927b90229e6d7bc762a26bcef1ebb326a2a90dcb20dc216c5cc
font_01_sfnt_off00011bc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000133d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133D7 10804 bytes
SHA-256: ab7144c14b3b0530a434ed657673e1ca7703cca464399236075846252052934c