Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c76fd32139fcd67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.1 KB Created: 2021-07-06 19:47:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7a87b9fac548a5d5dab5e84428ea5644 SHA-1: 9fab7bee83a292c2ba999e4797881117e2a50a4e SHA-256: 7c76fd32139fcd67faf518fafe0dc1121f196a7ad4df32f21baba8c461595c1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. Heuristics and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking readable content but containing embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9790

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 http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46fbc8e597---91125487676.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b75bbcab9d---94395144692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c4083bac676fb0168f223fb15724298/97744292212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608700d87773c---90981865070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62dd822f4eae6aea18f97c027870148b/96449332361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021051020471379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesmashclub.com/imgUpload/files/73127238833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/74475105446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/zejetugagerumimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f848026c3---debiduxenasodiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40624929951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdcfa7a3a1f---58818672796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e5d27989f---mesomifuvakajatogokodadud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aef61b4e008---rosuwuzigovawisin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210628073621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4606663b0---46686341909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/47569908382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609907f336232---ninoberikegibuvonuvabuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bj1jvi4124kk02go31b0rftqj6/kuvodetewewitovopenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf6469fa8e---72429953579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/kawene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f05bbdd18c---dagisalewuwanevezemexef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/52804073588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/megugeniwivulidomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/jodulifitaziboter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ti206fhc7j95ok4kjdh9ehogvt/jamebokem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=when+a+cat+meows+a+lotPDF 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_off00013a01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A01 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 9b851b0fb54f8614a62a17e064065fdb3d382918c3716253b839c263e3a2fc51
font_01_sfnt_off00015167.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15167 18120 bytes
SHA-256: 5cb79a6c99dfe733f3f22b7eb18978354d7e12af1384a5c782ef8975ba51f94d
font_02_sfnt_off00017fdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17FDD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1