Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ca06f5647f20e4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 05:38:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1e19bb59a5e5fbe77875e807a533582c SHA-1: 2116ae162445af6661de18220431f5337a9d8e6f SHA-256: 7ca06f5647f20e4f1682b75ace1eaf367f3d48993ad13d09933cc41aa6932647
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a clear intent to lead users to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mike+the+knight+theme+song PDF link annotation
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/219c52b567fc51e6c4f40d64e04c3412/74506516862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8e495db64---73515191335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f602d9ba0e---winexuzudakimed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57f5ffe6ea710e25fa181cd206aeceb4/tutemex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e61c824c12bd2d03999aac81b2db6747/58494980149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8865c28940---tenatuwajedoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98mhfpntokroso8r0ppnfpm9s5/deredezewukevafemogoxudeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad7b9b5817a---xesexokipiguxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7adc419de9---20038867667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f85d59ea2---xuruvezudozetukurare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecff7e799beb2a965d84eef8f44bc597/22444727998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paardenwelzijnscheck.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/91415014561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a7470a68e1d9ec42e61470d791b8c6f/25108296619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55b2ce39c9---noxuwuvotuzugiresug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8401d943998bda5d021678dd5537e15e/remuzunimokumewurakefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1370c508490f24d8eb10eb21bab42ba7/33657777296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0dcea38aefe3050014518eae5d90f6e/tefojubevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdbchurch.com/clients/43262/File/dukazuterobetixorulisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mk9n9o68fbttcr14fuook9oelr/52504969277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/30244978711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosperitas.be/data/assets/file/55367777425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cee7c5fedb---83921660045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tate79.com/clients/868750/File/65192371286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/wezapan.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_off0000fe3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE3A 10332 bytes
SHA-256: 9aa37d57a24e2415116142e38963cbe1442625936c0c6fc3b37683184457c4d6
font_01_sfnt_off00011559.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11559 17420 bytes
SHA-256: 6c03bc55a4427ea3345b013cdbf97166000fb0664afcc146a813609cc20b4e91
font_02_sfnt_off000142a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1