Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d6c251968a3d307…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:48:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d6a146ab54a005ff6cd2799774e78445 SHA-1: 255ccaf1852d716d2271a4dd02e19a68555675df SHA-256: 7d6c251968a3d307ce396fdfe279a002bdc338766fe972f193bc6047de46cc6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=superset+routine+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9112a0c26---remev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cmll7udg372dped1qk35i3v4ud/36077796407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/523c5f7dc66a743085bd4d2c2a3f8e2b/360773200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/kanusej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9nu6pmb0971mpgsb8vs5k25fp3/70976820960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2cf2851f54---lesugeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourjamesfamilyhistory.com/clients/1/14/146a9f92d0a296c7c29e793db058bb30/File/zebexoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ec111afc0---sijimezarokexow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newcastlehigh1967-50threunion.com/clients/43248/File/93999584323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwhs79.com/clients/867100/File/22792321021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmj7pp49c48lqjlvo3rkqfisd3/visufoxutib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b38cfdfaf2f5bc8cb4d10ae3e25129d5/94978866005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paglialonga.it/userfiles/files/jusokuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupposcorcia.it/userfiles/files/51098251280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/804574cb2af20936e2f1cfc2b04190e6/23871663431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/vuputedemike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24m001vg1oolrc13dumgaskd2l/delakeviwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevenetianmask.com/clients/71561/File/49845330211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ituor.ir/basefile/chartermeinfo/files/74728470669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a82rr69efjmie2d481m5pefur/mabifogagizirodow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e92c8158a46---taketema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlponder.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/46235158149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/zopus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607424e0d2ac9---mupowufegogizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsagco.com/Upload/file/bowotogu.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_off000107c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C1 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 0b81e3d716b44594a01d73c9b85f9dac5ffa2371359a4b8a8bdc6a967961bccf
font_01_sfnt_off00011f94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000137a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137A6 18076 bytes
SHA-256: 68d3330e508b589fc6c4b2513114fd344370e15af6413ea6859c6bd63ed3eb5c