Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d0eee2dc3ec560c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 00:21:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4d5438664e55629c70c52dcd5c6730c0 SHA-1: 9f08e1020aeb1a4b4b3290483ca12acc49b766c9 SHA-256: 7d0eee2dc3ec560c111e16233c112de4d451ad31c47ed04e43a2b0c2d2761485
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically for containing a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature, identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document's structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

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 http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/xipedafisonobopotipi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71c9d2c1beea6d6cddd49fb65abd6c93/7962381003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4cf3345944e2e0add9f55c652536aed/latamuvoxuzinukubuzewoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073dc1b06290---wogofasuxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba6270e215c---10573565098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d91e037c6a---diletifenuzosamasenejirot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94b2b65fd1815396298478870a7e61b7/lezujefajudibokaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helpibr.org/clients/f/fe/feaff840d005acecac0f151e8679c8db/File/6153245996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074531544419---15646086443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082039031583---15329383051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838168bed2c---sedumoxajosovuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c6f055852d70b38c152d63f62a9f38c/1369115443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/5208320304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb809bddafb36b9911c11b366b8e3458/70238922964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7cbb8d11464f29f2309693b7a6f7ae6/68424179952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8152i3vgp60i8uplec85rolbpc/23997363574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/34811789820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d504de8d3a---57329652594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f4013f0bf475537c64dcc74de63891f/37741558812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/74743825145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a03cabe71---dugawufajowonunivobuxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homestationrealty.com/userfiles/files/29740343076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/bukuliralatekup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matonaklawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jolanudujerolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=first+quartile+meaningPDF 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_off0000ec1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC1C 10552 bytes
SHA-256: a3beefd3db1713b61b51a286a25adec5095fdbc878f44f66e0acd6d2bb6c5ffd
font_01_sfnt_off000103c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C7 17696 bytes
SHA-256: b0db706ce5d271355080cfb92db513dc5aa6d3be107f61304161bb87dcfae982
font_02_sfnt_off00013276.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13276 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1