Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f0608f97d528267…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:10:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a1783244ceafaa4f8e0a8e816f669768 SHA-1: 47331ea58c4115d4e743da2a9ccb75d265bd59e0 SHA-256: 7f0608f97d5282671b5ff6bb0ee8bd20711f4846d1db560198cf0c2f2a5f3b9a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites hosting further PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing additional malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL targets are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855e73ba435---fimitazuziwigidaworutikil.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608932392a22b---kapivefen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/84155922084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe6f8a4ada---fitipatekisuzasawemokuxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/walop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangphong.vn/uploads/image/files/61430042904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lensprovn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23853221085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7307defdaa3289a1cd84f5b1e9366134/jajexunuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/230987592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/71956680295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/077kid2a58jlrvi439ohp9v6m3/filatezisowumul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb20505a68f---42973499730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionnutritech.com/upload/files/75384017800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simmsfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/98/98d47f1658d09d39d77ba56043454c9c/File/vomevudorosadif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/la8i6aujoaotuoto6a0ominl05/fidalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d5f3587d4---rawigaxunijupupidosenem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2c4ef5ce491c0b86908db076fd135c7/94959251028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/154b1b4beb3704e324909c42d4f8423e/48874741824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/96569644397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/25183821653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oumkua.com/userfiles/file/kakinawowesamumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/81295333644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mon1m17d2qka70qejnv60cdhj4/39324696239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pchs1967.com/clients/b/b3/b38b0c0be7ceca4b309dcb684d78a7c5/File/borijefeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=why+are+scales+like+roadmapsPDF 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_off0000dfc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC0 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 6696b3d1de5920e0e110491fd36494b8d6cef2d33a7e40c3509bf4f6bc406a98
font_01_sfnt_off0000f892.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF892 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A4 18132 bytes
SHA-256: efdbf27e435d232fcff7b86ff26365c555123de184d6b0773f7126d56a927788