Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e51ead0cd06dba2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-08-31 14:52:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: d39cbb0ed0742a6dd06d6828811b6ffa SHA-1: fe05698d1f47ea42b420169db94d2fd677f74ca7 SHA-256: 7e51ead0cd06dba29da1ab42a7daf769c48d05ef4199bd3fea32a7a16402feaa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious content. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious destinations. The presence of these links and the overall detection by security tools strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hitbilcal65q9lcopivgadr7ah/72586229776.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baovevietnam-vnss.com/upload/file/57635906091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83eb0b9d9b---bepaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gryf-wet.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29432793099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samajsutra.com/userfiles/files/68615687923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca5630df57---lavedokomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12roosqplkoahuo8n7mhodcl40/tumipedinipagizijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingscolley.com/uploads/files/75346249987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf4a461b66943736ecbc9195f7ef2b3a/pawawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laduses.nl/image/file/xuvumotebenefibodone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/19955623295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/lerigivinive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9meustjecrbssu038l2c38624q/78954363577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://it-hair.com/userfiles/35778001676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rotimunusofijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/029a03c423a609a6e8071e9e81df94d2/63914948992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campfirewtx.org/userfiles/file/30723749002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farmaciapenil.es/userfiles/files/23827265914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hbubj7tfovekd2oue77jbp9ea8/17603604923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adgroup.co/userfiles/file/87772748586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b9ecc79d8120fbf69d25c5750ed884e/27113392943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112bc211cca4---gofatumadonifaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3d84636ce---21762891570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/towotidebukegunoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/89927961407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=chase+claypool+4+td+gamePDF 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_off0000df7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF7C 18248 bytes
SHA-256: 7286fd9b401341870c748182c47afd30a66e47cb78d6eeddd9c4b12729d52fb7
font_01_sfnt_off00010f2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F2B 10888 bytes
SHA-256: f03ee817f3a3cfe5817b7ed879d5b5ca7c9652270bf53da477fc7c1a3955512e
font_02_sfnt_off00012845.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12845 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1