Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e4732cdcacc27b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 13:50:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 009a9b37648bbc9e1ceae5302e4a4952 SHA-1: 6eb072644146a6dbd93ee8d9aec0e8c2ea6ef41c SHA-256: 7e4732cdcacc27b53e44b166a990cfbcc3a272d844ca471e0db0f4371a5bc8c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other potentially malicious domains. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests the document's purpose is to host a large number of links for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e44e23ec64673b9fa925cea66373f23/zenovisa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/007451ae62bd934b7d6f49bf515a8200/lezufunoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksuskalology.com/images/file/96940132836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087448e819bd---bavejewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7641995c8---nokelevabemezubazesasus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3d55da8a6f---35664452049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me//files/38768232730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/zetunivetifizokemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c21e9b56b0a1b9024ee1e10be99b7c2/sufuwerinabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c89c64a05e6c11fe5e5147f145eb5871/birapavimonevelojugatav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/598ir3ua456qjgftdi0frvqu6n/66567354943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f58e345448047f70e7896e04a4f4f82/12440537730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8355f56387---giweluxekofago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790304bcf69---kisudemukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmmagic.vn/userfiles/file/43417978746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a209e05a75f---vowikibexobagegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/48807455125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19489f7782d5ecb25c88a5b89fda3d67/43337470818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9d7dcbdfe6---29950816680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986df9f087d---tojapibagugazitagevonurup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=petrographic+microscope+parts+and+functions+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/87740762565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001117d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1117D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001298f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1298F 16788 bytes
SHA-256: c5f4cdcc1599a57758f4f4ec6d286ec696d52268ef7e93d2103aa6b398d8f756
font_02_sfnt_off00015569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15569 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 2451a212ff730ed5effcd9b6b40d044fea67f3d990bb07bc33f76fbde803ccc0