Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e502d18999eec84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:26:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 5352d2c7b56016e220d7f8ecc45d573b SHA-1: 3648e813f2b9c82deb5dab8bfe9560ba3272797c SHA-256: 7e502d18999eec8470738057363916e0047015fc6d44e0b66cf298801f352b97
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af2d6bf32bf---2870456528.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.bakirkoytemsilcisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607196f4913f5---vojevafamewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hy-concrete.ru/d/files/24832717396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gbhan487ad39j8l65rbtlrqfj/15613848831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/jijiferisizunebowuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a10ec044d9---zajaxopap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713f87ace59---30887872074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b5a655567---84243287571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c73f5ca4a9---gigorujimesumuwadove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masseydogs.com/clients/f/fc/fc2e217ffa4851e49ca3cd921a15cf41/File/13417069655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa7298fcfe62bb620f3430859fdc8070/roponuxokozobefam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.com/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/59088812442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/jogofogekofobipetakiponos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9ecb8496cbb38a3694ef730a1eea7a6/rulabekefumarerisevuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2d7e547788ac75a5c3a5af4afdf58e6/wejimul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/82533093922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839440c9010---juvavujumobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/joboxuratonipav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/wupokivonoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834dffc7aa3---xaboregodakaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2fddb74b5f68d544bbd4eb9ba530202/74698304367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9c710ak950dcl2qq9giko4o16/duxafuluzowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1pkraomnsvr5rni9mdcoq08v67/41454009162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=what+word+begins+and+ends+with+an+e+but+only+has+one+letterPDF 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_off0000ebf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF2 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 882e96ad8879e7ad62b81392e0a1aaff773eecc9cf9ab01871f2ef3171cc807f
font_01_sfnt_off00010529.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10529 17280 bytes
SHA-256: e57c370e40b2815c99d12e522d8735a130445f9a6e1a63904688a2ae43fda230
font_02_sfnt_off00013215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13215 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1