Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d5e0fc2aa3466b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-07-17 18:06:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8ec21b8bfa4ff3e0e93b9757bf62c15d SHA-1: 107f4ba58ab47f2e2e8633f6f20bb037db22559e SHA-256: 7d5e0fc2aa3466b3e218199f213da81c5f6ff21065750b4c3270b0031ac190f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as lures to phishing sites or downloaders for further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9959

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 https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4aefd4035---72047360656.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0fc823ceb---tezefibabiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/48836963740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ba21b571634f9a3a3fa7fb00b9fc440/78693217586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/48359048048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ce76f16d2---daxuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotravenzolo.it/userfiles/files/jisaxefisoxugitelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608daf2f64fa0---lubijegiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96311352e9---20584515147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9af8f191f---tapox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c077b9a54b2b7a9c8ca08e0a1aedd30/96260683535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b5d9ea08e---63865513074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fl1n16iugvb098vccn1ikd13um/70761841422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ddaeb8745---58173385787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vipbeachhouse.com/uploads/editor/file/jaxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202106290408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9525a03e14cac509a3557b3c4f81140/rowenonikatukugonudozilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ab4f3a0c5b2f147378ce52b9721814a/29460779728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/68853649110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contextuae.com/resimler/files/lilavosakonufepekugopupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1nbsfcd1c74s5ef0i2h4lquqd6/kijotewelebutegafigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c3bcd56ab---66422995039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c89619f381---67358181161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=in+the+chain+of+infection+a+portal+of+exit+can+bePDF 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_off0000bd2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d540.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD540 16100 bytes
SHA-256: 360750e323b6a08b692181df8e995745605b547dd8a05c4187c820ffba3a7150
font_02_sfnt_off0000febd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEBD 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 449820e3d3f16c06e21cbf029662c03d2efe39371a0670a098722202a935d26d