Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d1fcfaac15df433…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:01:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 91ec5a62c824b74994f2e32b2af3abf1 SHA-1: c3338104ff777e0d5d79332633847a63f2321bb8 SHA-256: 7d1fcfaac15df43344af2cb46682e7f92f091bcb4191a477af1dd6a0467d873e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a clear intent to redirect users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://edwardnugent.com/userfiles/files/28000297098.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfa5cacb84e8faae58839557020a2166/54734870974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/mutalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facyt.com.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81499656981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/98124717591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eot.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/18168627975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e133467e690---73846976094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-12/20210712213423940786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fifewixoras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9da1c92bd6---30322448237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-park.es/img/uploads/files/nerokuruluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slstudio.it/userfiles/files/fapurefanepegijak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/41384759781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transcash.com/ci/userfiles/files/81353190863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logiccpacma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vezoriguvajobese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--p3t29jo1ed4o4xw.tw/upload/files/jobejusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/gosamiwepila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutscher-customs.de/gfx/userfiles/files/805314088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7fa6e8e99---pojiperuwilevuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160ac280261fbe---pajotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5ed087ca7a---futeririzufugavoxigogojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876e7fb9ba8---kominofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/67695130639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608874a70404b---20704478100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=his+majesty%27s+servicePDF 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_off0000d93c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD93C 17832 bytes
SHA-256: 1988c2eeb255a5ab2b60be1966d7d87c6f6459117f157b80d63942d14965ea75
font_01_sfnt_off0001075e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1075E 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 327985557a1fe9508dd3f1ef29df09b2e424cc3b7f492e33c203d0da1b2069f7
font_02_sfnt_off00011f20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F20 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1