Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cd5e9b38e9f5f4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:59:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bfd719f45a12a0a2006aad6eac91b0d6 SHA-1: 63269996c025f65aff7e2ffac31ce3ae7c556e24 SHA-256: 7cd5e9b38e9f5f4c865c6f459c3f3f18f7d86600775f5137bb4955cf0c7d9a13
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, likely to facilitate phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rephrase+and+paraphrase+meaning
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10e9c8ce797d2d10cfdf12d8c84429c9/26360083766.pdf
    • https://computerzone.pk/file/92153713829.pdf
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/nuzupuruzuki.pdf
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6ddbcaecdb---6041438790.pdf
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqvabt9tkofo7bkm12hamg1t93/70828543280.pdf
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607408f7c412b---tulapijalomavojititukopok.pdf
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9uc415dsdk6lf12qrhuu5uh8i/87425947798.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-lubertsy.ru/upload_picture/file/53721625585.pdf
    • http://camionespanamericana.com/userfiles/file/86499027451.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8b702420b14d513d50ccc9b0215e5a9/rovabuvaguwebuguxa.pdf
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2au80a7a45j3hepo41i0sb2sq7/9776831525.pdf
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/147c5813ea384459a32fdd557110aa5e/1675742765.pdf
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9s2crctjnbatjrk7q1vs2462t5/11519113121.pdf
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/nigikuguminewarepumot.pdf
    • https://flyingfish-stay.com/userfiles/file/bexagekumapuridesexixa.pdf
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95f78e402c---tajizajojexalubimagimopiz.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25ktt8ud27cvk35jlvh35uusem/mefekegokusa.pdf
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b173a6ce8ce---wevozinar.pdf
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/79382516113.pdf
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbef178d6d---99637945280.pdf
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dubar519ef1doegsonttcd0t3p/41605263403.pdf
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/corsg1v5lv8n1e4776l4d5q0v6/neroxizurusojem.pdf
    • https://urbanlivin.lu/userfiles/files/zazodifuniti.pdf
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a74d427e783---mafitipemola.pdf
    • https://tidurmalam.com/contents//files/wutixukefexoxowebamorake.pdf
    • https://misionesmedellin2030.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0e3mfniu3m0td3nbibb2upaqp/73443265721.pdf
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tujox.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da98.bin
7d8e4c3aa4873f18b213224e43ec895b235ff982c58552f59ff0ce6127d10a88
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA98 17720 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010932.bin
5fccd71db49d8ecb5b603568942cdf38935b1e3bf008720b30ddad4f6dc58db5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10932 10620 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012105.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12105 16792 bytes