Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e0f12ea71608928…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 22:10:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: da21ac726870e74b77e360206c81981e SHA-1: cb925fa97a187fa3e380eb9b51a699aee8281506 SHA-256: 7e0f12ea71608928ef1774ec7578e860225887d1f1d70dc7ece6d70d7b658c34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, suggesting the primary function is to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc8c8a64ff429c7632f2555340884a72/jadudoligije.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/82509998437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euroteam.vn/ckfinder/userfiles//files/72640445372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5223b6604a---jepozudon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hmh.sk/files/articles/file/siboda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s44b9c3fued9233oguotdct100/mirewomiroronojowabivebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a111735cbf---zivarow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f823c86be6---fegovatiwevijaxeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/merujofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da07cc1f8b---guparakejubidekonate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcb919okrmb6db7ubelu1oo65k/26570702589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/74654069863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8r04jsjug447lhv4jbtorq4bhm/28615275236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/490tdmnu9v1hdaio8dp2rh7714/58860657398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2432db743d78b69b351c561c495182fc/87968230367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f5a74fc06dfa428d8ed9776f2620147/12396304302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ohk3q9elk4heuoo8eaqtaq85ab/luxadireburidixugejadof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/905f558c93c51916f4aa08ec5de19a5b/49201197764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607302e558d2f---raderimivokeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c54ettebin3t9b7dmfmqn61ihp/pudezovosetudogojofugire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/gupakudesipejag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanti-fitness.pl/uploads/assets/file/67084515035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+your+first+job+out+of+collegePDF 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_off0000fbf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF6 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 46a7d4d411198f67e4e6b508a0f4b8545619836f4bbd68f17d7b851fbbdb7b98
font_01_sfnt_off00011503.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11503 16704 bytes
SHA-256: e666bc495229b46c711c34abe33ab8e22d5cb20e60c6d643969301c246011903
font_02_sfnt_off0001404e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1404E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1