Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e992559dcd469e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 17:15:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 60f8e107de409d4e7e7f3615f48e7404 SHA-1: 7b62010992af293a60a11460fdb51ef3632fd744 SHA-256: 7e992559dcd469e49db04b92e7b96ce8f8f998a41fb10469651be1833266dd90
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates these links are on disposable hosting and use UTM parameters, common in phishing or spam campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bfj4m5jbm5tdnu04pjigr73dn/14139847657.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f13740dc777fa5bd5bfe9b3b9469c57/kenesogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f071aa96699d50f07cb2e2d332ea4f9a/49485288891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whs1963.com/clients/7/75/758a827d59fb1c2827eec60421ffdc22/File/fejetapovepone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/wifazaxusenubifotetamik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinmexindia.com/uploads/96001332678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwistw.com/upload/files/seviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d5c484c26fad835486dd11fadb6e44d/kejabotajixexalepidoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d7cfef192---gojadar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0adec248d1e42f5fd37678296f0d76a8/95786852547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db821989c2e10f2e3262166135b7303c/zewaxeridewifapodimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c88e4cb0d2bcae0104e0fdca5628e74/mipusolisisojuzimenitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///tabomekikanekudeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f3003254a---13694855276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lerptrf7oushh88acdo69rpciq/23542366970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/nomedowusefikonikojifos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2l7skr9luh543i12hsqf09292k/49535248903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d0dcbd691---70696228854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoanalyze.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48fa355b416fd749badf90ad458d6686/gogiverofagenomefafeligew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/40548862218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/pevuxubovuzasawumowisepem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodanang.com/uploads/image/files/xelufuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887d023340b---36022975341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aacde448c8---67640742935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=5000+rmb+to+inrPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e3c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C0 16300 bytes
SHA-256: cb22297cb345efa2b973a5529f7d34f362c2fa401ecec879e64cb16b1dda6a81
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9E3 10060 bytes
SHA-256: 5860ebd0e64d0c0cdd8c11d205b77fd023be9b9de45761bb33b089a57265fbdf
font_02_sfnt_off00011031.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11031 16964 bytes
SHA-256: f8cfaddfd1d815fe164f095abfe0eef78d69e69d7d8cd08e8a3c361d406cec2d
font_03_sfnt_off00013c85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1