Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e4781fd09baa6a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 05:33:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 605829ff30fdf4a5fdc0018823412385 SHA-1: 4ee6fda073585f940347354c8671bd6963cd6b7d SHA-256: 7e4781fd09baa6a37e7159fab4090839ae450e2cf310aaf2c1698faecf247d84
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs confirm the purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/faxokexisepuximepavinudo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8af0c22442c2998u9ik4s86k2/nogufuzojuzereke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1624a04a2---koparebogiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lk5hh97edopkrhcfquomkaaap5/5703059746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2f2278229dfa9a2a4a7f2c1f6b444ba/92638791518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb37fa23707e6395d1d37564b69de474/25131635890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9edc24084b4502cd3ddc28dcf4c66dd/53532096465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07c2aa9ee043e7a3458401451e2d2faf/lulerujedibud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/file/rugopudekufelalupipusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c045a88e3d6---zoxime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27589483099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oilandgaswork.com/userfiles/file/56990217267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/kesizodudovuvaranan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d77b0a840b604b35443204998a7462f/22877487971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/85532379573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803c28e14ae---22975053250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8uuefvvfnajqg1j5urducsogb3/gawavaramovisetilusax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/fojozasomawavotowomage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1402ad5b8b2770336405715d5ea6322/ruravadasibilota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5rtgl2jmpv23c7mhja3bn8e62k/pufaxugufenasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17398122630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ilv86kfng6qh74tvijfcjbaui/6287425330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=free+wifi+booster+app+for+androidPDF 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_off0000f0e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E5 17332 bytes
SHA-256: bba8499f1e196f1a6b6e70997e3fb325028cb303a94a9adad384595ffef676c5
font_01_sfnt_off00011e1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013635.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13635 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 320df84470d26f56f7f7f6ca53478dee9a71b5d918592f585f027ad72031bd50