Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7dd6f7255c47e1e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:20:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2f5d3d9e7c2d13747223745e5858f8d2 SHA-1: bf854b267cf4bc70cc233318279687f09295ff0c SHA-256: 7dd6f7255c47e1e9af30b55c96d8c245b475f337b1904fac7aa472271b618386
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads, suggesting it's designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a link farm strategy, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/67075455747.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ciccioinpentola.com/userfiles/files/95647272010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd10746590ae650c509433593c51b8e0/kosexiked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec4a25b93b---lasuzisefulavewof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56edd5ee07a01683e8827770ae606e13/nutogosonoderofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8h9k3mgt7cr3ppt7rqe7afjor0/nopetimopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a3679ea9fdd209ef169d84eb5488058/64772133618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnmarzillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/popipobazebivulugimoxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkhigh-tech.com/d/files/jokixotekoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loscogliodifavignana.it/userfiles/files/bomilizuwezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83c6fa869e357db7a88a4fca54f5401c/guwanedexufogasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gabag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9f2e68633---mined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualityroofinnandsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/78407162990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cbdada0fd2b30656a4179dff6787bc5/wulifovilomoramifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3172a73c7dfe8daccb67d1878f82b560/96046744735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianlanip.com/filespath/files/20210822085437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5ebb66435---sevifenipapejewirilodibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a208a470f---fegalogasoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d97ed99d4e---7939529087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef649fec49f5dbc27d9e47dbdc4a2a91/70105199558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netdepphunu.vn/images/userfiles/file/568984063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/047dfc5ba5e52b04c180e4c1a9da305b/76650669692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=omega+loop+bypass+costPDF 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_off0000dd95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A7 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 5c114f15dbfaa7a66efe51e0e5f8ec103d6b4ea5dfdf0a9e748607ec5ee2acc9
font_02_sfnt_off000122e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E4 10700 bytes
SHA-256: cec681e03a9dbbdaf665a6f6c3f998387b11bf107f3a129952d62819fc14f9ee