Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e5572124cfe9869…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 21:10:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e3d29b0ce945cbc8b85d34748b86c16d SHA-1: b4ec6f81f25496a4bfb1cbd403040f778e4d9d51 SHA-256: 7e5572124cfe98690fc496a38a15188be4d876c7f8e7776a17ec4ccb6448ba7a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into phishing scams or download further malware. The PDF structure itself is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of multiple external links and the 'compromised CMS upload link farm' heuristic strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=explain+the+structure+of+a+chloroplast PDF link annotation
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27fee89754a52c1c5510dc4f0cd0476c/nomifofotavuzudeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72vsdmfvrkn51igl9oh0atrtdj/gitaxaxusazoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02c14ae3262499d27b953c738b709901/wusokexuxokefemevesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097cdb094f8b---85811021803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094557d213c8---kezozipulalokedokozuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8ef506e80---xugokiwijirolik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehonourride.ca/clients/c/c2/c2a221447f3e921143a55eca482c8289/File/13531930077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozona.pt/wysiwygfiles/file/bulikofananuwivemufulabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8ae5r53q2a66uttri4uh2gt73/28656147244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca02290b3b---zedevobevek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8e242690c50cd924d3fe51c813a1113/balolivefumutitekag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.net/contents//files/89792752152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757687ac7c4---fekilovagisuvejozikuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/mufedaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cifo1t8eat5j071les4g7kq60/40099122576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8366736cfd0917207a841037ec73ceca/sagoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/jumefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859437bb20f---butapigaguwadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kj99gl6c6d0se3t5r7o7pne9vj/keguwitikawotuwiwinefikes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/12407108332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84d3ec2e2094adac0a27bdeb23d9e425/mimusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbc602437eb87f684a282dff02a94b6c/modifatejitomelaloruk.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_off00010f81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F81 17068 bytes
SHA-256: f7c811aa121d81ae7b2159a1dda07ae2353f7c94aa9d0fc5d05e9f0d52aae53b
font_01_sfnt_off00013c0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C0C 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 6fd1f39e8b39927b9dfe430f5530182425383c25799e4eeb8ce3a49db22362a6
font_02_sfnt_off000154ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1