Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ecc1f210d925211…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-08-13 18:16:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 138efd2ba5628c943a42fbf2d149aa7e SHA-1: b52c6e174d9fbe4da734fca3a65bb602a7bd9659 SHA-256: 7ecc1f210d925211593b2f7bf387e67afc5e24f45c619394f8e97ce90e43ab97
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which likely serve as a distribution point for malicious content. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a816b30ff1f---58180173223.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ddc-touggourt.dz/ar/files/livuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aydin-elektrik.com/resimler/files/72324434064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb1004.com/userData/board/file/2773535224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f485272b3---35536542583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c256b7cf5204e890995bb16dbd094814/40222670210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biogenetec.tw/image/files/20210704_031738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balbok.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33041665541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4ca2ad4ea---koxolelimig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluefashion.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xenajavog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacionamigosdelmarcaribe.ong/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tujisipewejepidifeletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/785cdf81dc4da627033eb9ec4f090bba/lavigalalafumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/musebimopazuwoniladivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editions-tlp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sepanozamitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premium-house.uz/images/file/25932913122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b51cdc8f0de---rawituzawarolamuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenixfalt.com/userfiles/file/ledazajomogefajinaxonakop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26cd8dd4ed9073b232e5f11b0706d6fa/60505286354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/rumukigudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cestovni-postylka.eu/userfiles/file/41673369574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/3338834935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelsafeway.com/userfiles/file/49033227225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/rowanipipabuxalewalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8fa2f3fdfe46a9b21e5d410f23857b5/fisajuwasokuduvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=envision+math+2.0+volume+1+grade+7+answer+key+pdfPDF 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_off0000ed76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED76 11796 bytes
SHA-256: 80c4520a37ab6b06a6f1884380ca971f246adf574fd6553ab29c638ebdd34e70
font_01_sfnt_off0001097a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1097A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001218c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1218C 19224 bytes
SHA-256: 94da78559f892bbafeafa863f27065de53b3870d65dc412a7e942d4113721d92