Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ce8fd75f68f2365…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-18 22:05:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b1cdd2dac31fd4202579e3ab23f066a7 SHA-1: 60ffc651379617205d3335985d93d3da3a2626e6 SHA-256: 7ce8fd75f68f2365f2d19e5a775597e8a604534ccb499acd87459865a6b6b118
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic confirm the attack pattern.

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://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2d4b713a6f9799630f71a26c6c81db3/58810588132.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846653ec257---81331250244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b79b08a9c---71604999997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/rumusizaxugozufuxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmhmda4bsl9bmu37vun0g7nn01/dilututowapetejeponid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canigrup.com/userfiles/file/nixegugeriwagixoduka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterjobintl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/majetevuwezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e692912e4795ea302b61d9437bf8922/tulupokogoxunamanog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rbq61m3fidqpso1io9nno4mg9n/48709078485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/filiziririxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607848a9bf958---32150335052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4677141f9f---badamipulurozixefejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b691ee441---tutomupipakajozetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/45083754269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/286112766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b5e891e52---zoxube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/17107276223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safaraval.com/basefile/safaravalcom/files/xuririjurodikafazakizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/kadad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bank-kredit.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ninipakivodugogofuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocinti.eu/userfiles/files/87241779801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/83947379296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udaybharat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35984487104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/99118485573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cbb190f0a1afcfd897180e6f946115f/36328579522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=brother+printer+mfc+240c+manualPDF 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_off0000efd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E6 19380 bytes
SHA-256: b33c7b55f47602dcc3908f27084c3369d52fdfe7b3882a71d88df16e7c3842bb
font_02_sfnt_off000139cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139CC 11052 bytes
SHA-256: e65d994a556252c444f3ff406648af111e141f5aee48f10e6642443426b46b3e