Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d876c17fd17b4cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-05-01 03:17:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 57d91e7cc27ca189f1bed5364776975b SHA-1: 78b70a21d91a1db154e62c1cc374405d6c280ffa SHA-256: 7d876c17fd17b4cd29da97968b182218cc2ae14c00e41cb2a84c4aa6ac57fa30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's used to host or redirect to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e766dafa5e---24058054914.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g7vhfojt3dnhgsptcrjsddkcj5/16114217943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c669b7e002b5e6ebe1468dcccada62f4/tejovezatilafezubenagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ul6c2nt2bfcq67ktcv1lk1b1e0/95169106355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b4bdec75b---40324104249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aaa7c901a9---18663988247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaspoassur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbfe1b9403c86f5a75af0f1a5039095c/pigemob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff7bd1d3de---narafidavejomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/494e8becacf430dbbb1e6db1989e0537/19803556498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c934d4d53f---15746518306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160751168ad7af---wavuketejilapotivekazed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a22b577e0a6291dd56286ede9975cda/lavumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7520aae164e53b85bc4b07376fdf76d/savuxizejeluvutorilezujop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3969c0a834619a4ba54ce4a55a6d50b3/gigazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da122c5f845d1c09cbd1321df31ba74a/jibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b402079b7a---21460669163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/rujiwezesulajamopipasafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=cecil+textbook+of+medicine+22nd+edition+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010ae6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AE6 5124 bytes
SHA-256: bfa9582b5e0e1f1194a7a306ef21a0b5cbab281eca232b73746313e0b1cae3cd
font_01_sfnt_off00011c4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C4C 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 7fc1d64d5287922acca877c87ca815a0a15cd275ef87f7905f7ad0ee8a83bab0