Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ef0ca879a268555…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-07-25 02:08:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 70898233cf46eb7c9817f83668cd9459 SHA-1: 51abb2fa1c18e8bfe8b79825fb9381e18f9eb3cc SHA-256: 7ef0ca879a2685556d4d3cdd34bf72d38f19d431357b605bfffedfe1000fdb63
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 sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly indicate the malicious nature of the embedded links.

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 https://stadion-nsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kudenivilejawolutif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-18/20210518044839289619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c10d24859---tuduxosuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexconsulting.ro/webroot/files/media/figejumugaguxorup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmkonsult.cz/userfiles/file/foribopafirebuluzuvupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocenzura.space/web/img/podborky/files/baleseju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5e044d6e7---20480810634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707cf87d3e6---fupewatilezixabasefomikoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608925f9a9c1a---77272132034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc3fd1350be62737db4548b4843679ab/47667761886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085363906510---49960165825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e70d0d885c9d1b87c8e56124ab18d17/todubimisipanaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americansemitruckparts.com/d/files/masaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fc45c0cf5---32433119411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/44279055760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://likeevent.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/lapufovijekuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f0b66a8f06d873787ac96382bc1f4f3/67187262938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/nifafelimogalamonibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3b22e1b58d---38639601294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/tupubapuvepavewasez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4bdf274ed---26781468104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ef14333c8c3b2506f3f562b8949d06a/gegoluzalofifalota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607775f12043e---moduromexajazenidevadojis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoyi-chuck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fupumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745b655cb50---56398816589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+price+of+infinix+note+8PDF 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_off000107b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011fc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC4 18708 bytes
SHA-256: d9e944ba903a5a0740b6e9984edb81a89914d6ba05a26b3143200d720600db6b
font_02_sfnt_off00015187.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15187 10832 bytes
SHA-256: db60d5438082df1d0e59dddd80be5ee6ed3b3b905bec800b00cc175f27bf1476