Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e6c6d62d1828942…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-08-08 13:50:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cc04fa9193f4c6af9150b64795d63764 SHA-1: 0fed30779f6c7cb513419ac5b105e5b021a2170b SHA-256: 7e6c6d62d1828942a0a16a231bc4f0bdc540d83186bd5b9dd5d17f54aee09a57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific purpose beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=10.s%C4%B1n%C4%B1f+kimya+kar%C4%B1%C5%9F%C4%B1mlar%C4%B1n+ayr%C4%B1lmas%C4%B1+eba
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec8eed70cf---kawedekibujutugewuweri.pdf
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/24191194845.pdf
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/tavemuvozowuzozanepagaxuk.pdf
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd0859d3e0---dusinazijanunon.pdf
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15aa16740808d922f1c1c72828d146e5/45097449207.pdf
    • http://drive4smilesontario.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/xepatabebokurelesazigori.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-1/20210501120811188207.pdf
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/48390238632.pdf
    • http://www.addvanceo.info/userfiles/files/20784933708.pdf
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cee806e5a---nixafigomuv.pdf
    • http://sterkrade.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30799173151.pdf
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/622aae0de7b728fcc3aa9c40fd84860e/rilogekavukujisuvi.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmbsc6uueebrg1b4utirh27ges/60887042324.pdf
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f635bbf136---fitusagin.pdf
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2c2aee345b89a7e8b8fb79c5364af6d/jazezawugevozora.pdf
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f81ac576c14---8860004168.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd54a3d94f---38441752907.pdf
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763bd0bca70---joras.pdf
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3622c660904b21f0100f4377ec1e8a72/nekajejuvite.pdf
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/gogikiluwanaluxim.pdf
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d704a618c763a06d1513418237bcc6f9/5391010387.pdf
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/66536051378.pdf
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/16476578401.pdf
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1e3f2aac1d65592db9729f69ff22475/82636136415.pdf
    • http://hzqzg.com/d/files/wajawaxikep.pdf
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4c97ac885a---96049582409.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df3d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF3D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f74f.bin
a996a3ec66f7c2e393a303e40171155f8bff93bb15767fd9dc43e3e71df18ce1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF74F 17788 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000122f4.bin
2210c617d28c30a0e4de73dba0da93fa66b286dd99b548ba4c2b1a11afed83b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F4 10932 bytes