Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d93ce9465bab004…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.1 KB Created: 2021-07-30 23:57:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: fa17ae0972f04dd70e4b2def2f8a426a SHA-1: c9b7369818fe0483b854face29caeb25a44c9e16 SHA-256: 7d93ce9465bab00420af222c116b994f057f0e4275813f2864f4b3aa92bf4252
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV, and heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The embedded URLs, including one hosted on atlasautoglass.com, likely serve as lures to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.2250

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c48d6fd3672---99620526008.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160addba7d90b1---sanubunujix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mishelik.ru/userfiles/file/selagago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74ac19083d6564ce949ba9a18dc3512c/33687163482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e04d3757f---79342939095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=fichner-rathus%27+understanding+art+11th+edition+pdfPDF link annotation