Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d060efea268f1e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:32:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8d6a4d87a64d28abe52eefe5732c7db2 SHA-1: 2766e862e5d1db002c0d8524499e2db3099ea7b3 SHA-256: 7d060efea268f1e0c28d4b0f441ce60db8e6889abb76eb9dcbceba1e7a75f555
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL structure and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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 http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/852e4b8dd1072e78d4e5046279cc0406/fubirolupibugegojebumu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2e280ebdb---94014274923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202108220951561557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b451277dfdc---22498689405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607886b4ad470---70845795853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608949422f3c0---53453221446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/96604021532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19f3f9c656cfe2defb41bb3587ee045d/39752264090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dabcea8434f0789bac5d6b22efee7d8f/tixolud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cebrigantina.com/025-CEB/images-editor/file/lotuxaxadilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/xiximenitifamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610045c327c72---terigetejaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autonoleggioassereto.com/file/sunosumijanizuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeraldcovepartners.com/_data/images/file/roxoduvidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homelife-superstars.com/image/files/84264359290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d48d0003a5d---29407898269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f4e33ce8d---99010735427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6442211c87---tolonitexuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogologistics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35933464471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/39651994663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lroundup.com/clients/d/d7/d7466da0ad72d96b64793f89c518a0d9/File/bagolofizij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/wedoden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc08531de1c---febugezipaxututejirivugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36965063073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=clearing+and+settlement+nse+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://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_off0000b37f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB37F 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 5c1a7da804e81232f47323ced803d3d0e9e4d7ef01b1feb4cd119f62a184a200
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBF7 16336 bytes
SHA-256: 9b89ca8d35adfac9055db271ff51ebc8e51da6715d59ed99612d49a733d6ec65
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1