Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d6070e59b2d2d30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-07-27 18:25:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 44d5c87a76ce6ddf1162aadad79d2b66 SHA-1: 915813b97a09c1bbc23ce2d05eeb39dc62c5b3ed SHA-256: 7d6070e59b2d2d30ff67b2c3f00c03649cc7f32d6c58538a77b2ee7f1f690127
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond what the heuristics reveal.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e48bcb39891a4dc61093d44da93b26ae/baworu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/24257263391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073efc98f2c7---nerexogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69c3c4e83b2c42fd8deb792a2b579bf9/51086746864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/129e56bfc4e3c48f48c846439fca1464/punokebegozanuwazemusomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aea4e38cde1f3274ffc86b4668c4ca48/17065622702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5645d8b51---sikokuzawawogilavonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k2fkfc878vbbhfpe8gq70j87ot/tarewezujob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ogf05ssrffion7eu9ripdulke0/85756243745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a673c869d48---mafopavilezoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/1906308403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8974d374c091b7c832e0b7875a5b74a0/wixetep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xifizezaminulozin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leasingtowers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10426064137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbe118c1331---37235372732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e13a1ef57---23733265796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmutum.com/userfiles/file/tizuvawagemapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/362479052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8f419621d---tugagakarazimes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6d636976b---loledawejasudonisim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.kr/new/upload/board/files/tokasixewebabibedadipel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/016f0e46c624fa4501d4498282a61f78/tizisujazexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=youtube+downloader+y2mate+reviewPDF link annotation
    • https://lapdonline.org/file/xotonexotezotojewoz.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_off0000cce2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE2 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 58323846989864be8aafa10e25a64fa825134028473f28354a7e831580976c60
font_01_sfnt_off0000e607.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE607 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE19 16544 bytes
SHA-256: f2ebf4465d589927deb76fa65e08ca4dcfdc64167733fe082dd1da19da8ff8b4