Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ca3704620c69dc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-07-08 21:08:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: dc3db62ca88927ce0945b6467cd9ef8d SHA-1: 79b633eba13dd644c8086a7fa18aa9d3251be13d SHA-256: 7ca3704620c69dc5ba0df264dc57241d9ccfeba880a5bf0e0f126a94d5384eb7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content or for SEO manipulation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae737f45803---16370500048.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dad6c7ca6d---54589942305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dulj2im7k97j86aqb6cq7keui6/22700711462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmrivestimenti.com/userfiles/files/72182819978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseacarpet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/94532412796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79165c547165995b9d50153daa564fb5/43066104444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10cf62b41a293bb4f7d3a372744fb1a9/zuzewigopukugejif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947cace5204---vuputowexisosezifuzun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/joregovopanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8229851cbabc0736ac646690f284f853/19713704828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ceb0c15d65566cf59b08ca92430aa12/nazidipaxunaxokabexiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b31bgml8ifqrdvk0isbdj0dk8c/58777561492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df4995e3c3---62916852228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43273767560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/goatkr4ghircnluem59r3ih4b6/ruxukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf845bb7e01---tufupozigepunavidaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb1b4fe18dd---busegivunuzad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hglobaltour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_C6072F3A3ECE0352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec5c166822---bivajelikiwogezifapomaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxm-hosting.nl/img/editor/file/vokigofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0cee9f59df631af90386a32ceacbb6/nezimaxuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76ac854725b5f73e7667832d80784039/nikosikodezasevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastrodibaglio.it/userfiles/files/keferivozanovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/95987909850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+do+makeup+as+a+beginnerPDF 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_off0000f857.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF857 17432 bytes
SHA-256: 004919806a9ac380dff681acbb27eb191ee9ac1eb586325df726fc75d9de60af
font_01_sfnt_off0001261f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1261F 11096 bytes
SHA-256: fe8baed6e414626c18e2e7ca32cf71d100010b836c7a901fd340ef4a7e2802ab
font_02_sfnt_off00013f92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1