Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d912f453db36ea0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 13:06:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ee34ff95caf6395a48315315d82f2414 SHA-1: acfd4eb80899f79c2a298073e61a9b9238b4707c SHA-256: 7d912f453db36ea023d9862b4a60d7d169583a14598424ceb31ea1c3b9c9f7b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs is a strong indicator of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa348852ae---60565117888.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6p5api41j4j12sos6b07fpr65/19753584019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmoxx.mn/userfiles/files/gabodapofafileta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/damimanegivunop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beec8e6cf6d---95583481369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehql14v8fdgqd8359jqge85ofn/14577171658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cubic.is/userfiles/file/jufilenubusefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfacf43c789---54714957630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e4d47b5fe6637a2f17f7e45c0b2e56c/10092907820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/vopobotigonodizalesaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc647551f77f062fcfb00bb3684aa8c4/49283459190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/275a99c7dc31b9645d132790751cb873/luzasimipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdafc8e349b---96896493345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c528e61b5a3---81821335709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3b3196b19c9fd4f7d3890d379954dfb/kegitexaxelukeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d436d2e3a4---fibilinadixex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f30d4d3ecdcb7023dc486a9e1778ebb/mebupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/winajurutarevizomixepob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26ceda388fdf15e2663ad0277c5dcaeb/72083743150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/10947326023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/laligutufikirokokedixezuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc1ed9726d5---74047996315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dcbf9f32b4---68422455247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edcc6af80fd7f71a3b39837399818987/30386488337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permianhighschool1970.com/clients/e/ef/efee9fcbc667252fc4b649c8163d3733/File/57017537907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/pavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+rotate+all+pages+in+a+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://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_off0000d832.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD832 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 9bff99f6e38bfa812bd74b5fb031cb3f1627a3390458bab87281a3ea2cf5554e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0CE 17280 bytes
SHA-256: 51271d3a2dd8a9432ec3e4ff02667a1566dcd7d4c35fdbb6e200e17fa341b37d
font_02_sfnt_off00011d9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1