Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d03fc7a751cbdd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-05-31 23:54:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: e6a667fe135a5810e667b7f33ca9c5b1 SHA-1: 56eaf24279ac64e88beada0d73e4d334ec330f8a SHA-256: 7d03fc7a751cbdd0b649ac671726b9cd1480174f5533c63ab036d174e462fa18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host and distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to trick users into downloading malware, potentially disguised as legitimate documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b7d614e1a---mefitavosunogiwasosudikud.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/on0rgfv02tijg0ooc7a5trrm97/23593900753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0425d72571---zelituvubojigomefatibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c861a7d73b1d330d4845f6f58ffb5ee/dakoginonopitimufus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097a1316d412---56048235030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988b61cf600---kikudewobiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc5195f5b9---83114697475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/18243565594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/35434011879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1782ac9f4a9340217a3902383b13439d/gowavabovavum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6b57963fe3041a5583f7e29626abf9a/bewezomebuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094561f223f4---vovevipipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f14d6c8d9443debcb0c931ac970fd8e/45160825471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11182284543764ed8d8c14cc1b4bd3c9/munimemifagobolorinibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f377fb96e6---nopemomadeverinijawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1b00e757550acf0e864f2f7425be0e6/xekiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afabe1e6627---wogag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971285be546---81726028425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=actividades+con+el+verbo+to+be+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e201.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE201 5340 bytes
SHA-256: 4ea1cc0b27fb7299f4d0cbf27060a854e8ece7d6e84dc78642d60f5768a11d57
font_01_sfnt_off0000f43b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF43B 11684 bytes
SHA-256: d694160b5ee7dc1b45b94617513ba922e7887fcfeddac75aa7797d68ab0587a7