Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d277e4be7d0ebed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 21:53:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 709672e9fc3b3ee7b4c3b905428b4b36 SHA-1: b4abe305136acbc0d1441db3713e208b8c1cb6dd SHA-256: 7d277e4be7d0ebed113ca5832de34e2dc0151815271a83ea33886613699d903d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a link farm to host malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=word+document+to+pdf+converter+online+free PDF link annotation
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731e78b65fd---fidapukenuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec0c93da2b---fabapekavefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e962d05ce2---bibiwitevativ.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa0f6f9330ccf9998d35b5e255166b97/welanipuwirodaxizofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-5/20210505050446621742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210607142130812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b49b46389---vizifosoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fd274690f9064cf7dd1a483e059857d/tavujisanewoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/995ece6e40a33ac51b0b7e12a1c525f1/91863072240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608577f6b9b36---15831693156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/620afa3fbbe4a759a2b1320893043864/kadosivisok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/rubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fe3b11b40a12a8fbd2f5baf0d778fc4/migefofejibitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202106/file/1623996766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cebd71d4639---solemotovuxeboxukod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b72b4857d17---98874741770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hemeringen.de/ckeditor_ablage/userfiles/files/40638617475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonkoenigsmund.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca29302753---bunugagatepibug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607763112775a---83006217732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95bedcaa7b82a6ae5b74f4d2a86eb348/sipox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saltokisport.com/uploads/files/9058724784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b298463d914---josejodipewavujirete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/12055207452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7hpnvl98ngd6i9ke5u87c2ef87/40950232290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d13f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD13F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e956.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE956 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 51a6ff8dd7c50831df39a55b131e2c428380d052731020afd1cd11d8a5b7fcf5
font_02_sfnt_off0001018a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1018A 16464 bytes
SHA-256: 09096a20cfbb2b9bc45c3f372a43a64e48174356b819d2cb596986d4983f8b88