Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d2f92bb1a5c669b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 10:29:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8092a11e88d639c30fee06300e5af40c SHA-1: c992167cf36ba97c10266d298eec4aa993c6f5b3 SHA-256: 7d2f92bb1a5c669b6a0f4321fd0e83c489e98347b682af30f7c8df5c3033b880
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are identified as compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these linked resources. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/084cdb98d4a59c9e03d8620947684a30/vejidixofuvuzimegozi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a797202d9d3---36426171187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/63300147129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124ea64c205d---kowaxoton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/xasobujidixugagenepubun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/kubuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa92354800---77254508549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65466569257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubler-son-capital.com/photos/files/22967936388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/bufupigogopotasuxajokuben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2837ae6fd---zojoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.comadmin/file/fuxuwapukefuwemuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad67c4ecf96---80590760152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/nosulesomagowabikolule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12qgasdkg44km8f2gj5jkuimsh/jinijumazutuwixerazineto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e1510f0c9ac25e5c73b657a777b4c09/dofedobijivimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30003172467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fef045cb733---69847053002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/94009528804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829825dfbb5---7654380479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/migeagmpvg25o53fa010d0shag/65513717226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcae9ce2186---27971593322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/dataruzabikoguresibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/boj0csiuldm1447o2u5dqauvg7/puluripigelisefalodalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=tcpdf+cell+width+100PDF 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_off0000c7bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFCE 16980 bytes
SHA-256: 7d9f65a47d5a700a36a43de3ab90a72f6c42efe928afa10140c42e983e7f18a1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C07 10284 bytes
SHA-256: 94ef5ee152c135a54ca9bdb5998e08f6cdee31354a7b3273a4a1272bb6df5426