Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d0ff287a60015cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-08-10 07:19:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4e51850c3703bee0a39bdbec577be8f9 SHA-1: 1ab6dcbb4bf9a22c3a2330e1f1ca160ccdfeb159 SHA-256: 7d0ff287a60015cbde7ef2a7c6b1041ee14b9185ee5e98c00816c940844351c1
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1071.001 Web Protocols

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a credential harvesting lure. The document's structure and embedded URLs suggest it is part of a link farm designed to direct users to phishing sites. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further indicates a sophisticated phishing infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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://kajsanordstrom.com/userfiles/files/lizexeluzogizaziladur.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d21dba2f3c3988b97154437135de0a45/28218675156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/simesawexemunavexafinim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6643ea8bb9616f353b0d455e52505ea/kanixafikamoregor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c362d7d7e---38582393374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lachina.cn/upload/file/jegokezemudov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://score1forspencer.com/clients/4/45/4587145e2679cb7673d0e21b436e5c25/File/18908003329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mt912uth6npeu0ceehclmt789n/70417218826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/topurir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pp52ho9g0a40ndoshi1a12fds6/wijofesip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5aaf850a8b---jatibovewivowibov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16085cb20d522a---23902649153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf952d335d3---6453685025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rh65jp7h2jn237cj3u9pnfp8ai/raweretuvoruziwegaxefufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsva.com/uploads/files/loravatekawuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/penunekenagisugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/zemiruvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+decode+gravity+falls+journal+3PDF 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_off0000f312.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF312 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B29 11312 bytes
SHA-256: c32cb180dc886fd35aae189b1406e3d9afa07b043bd03fdd5799b3138a1388ba
font_02_sfnt_off000125aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125AA 18016 bytes
SHA-256: e9d4dc5ed9b224aeace50aa0b75aab7aea5f51422360f0b4b183e7123ba506b5