Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ee848d4e65b015b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-06-17 20:03:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 71a721ebe5db79e94747b7d320c0731a SHA-1: 996fd9fd3f77a92b2119cc2a16548907a150e30d SHA-256: 7ee848d4e65b015b4cf7e3ce507471c25adbee7ffffe63deaa70976f118b55e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, but the heuristic firings clearly identify the link farm and compromised hosting as the primary attack vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b0ea9ba6d---nitowobizizozopam.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91e9642f0770373f6871b30ffb1742e8/gaxexesosesog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajpdua.com/contents//files/36381242780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5e98ba0a4---49278038137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1d109b9c1---38666042124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/jagisuzodobibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609009eff16ae---wabugitizisizulaxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sq0f1jr955e0qvdtdr0e4oc7e6/17138523239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/256d2c929dba59d377808588cdc730c5/sukamojunatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/59370917459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changdahk.com/upload/46779564192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083009fca2f7---guvavuxabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/melejugariwepuwejunisugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80lvaoiuk7o97hc6oh8u8ljgg5/85477454391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81563d6d84c8b96f1f4c84f332653f25/15073398197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easttbirds88.com/clients/d/d7/d767393c090093bf18db16876c07b5c3/File/nuserewopazibukefugebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=royalty+free+tarot+imagesPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ccf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCF0 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 611a8071c1b32ec3c3933c4689159bf9655cd39084d43136b09a9106b877e155
font_01_sfnt_off0000de9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE9B 11440 bytes
SHA-256: 653f8202ea8a9893db15df933232a250606a2bbdff4d5515bea64a1e6e0ac5b4