Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f2a316a7e3d0fe0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:51:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d776ccd02b9ee25b7a84a5bb7205a45d SHA-1: cc27c1699e51c8e5b141855bba5fc4f19743794e SHA-256: 7f2a316a7e3d0fe04fa0357483d406ef54570bdcebcefff499d8cd5bb88d88f9
212 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. ClamAV detection and ML classification further confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca02aa2548---81633782665.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d63ea6dd00---tasinapopamilafatoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bundoreh.com/fckeditor/files/file/sesotirapikerunenozovebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.giuseppe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xawabesofenotumini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rippa.pt/files/file/babokejozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/zizofabidexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f83e2b637e3130476289b355cbb8b61/57530454270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb878b35f3e28a17ce5dca7efa1ca5d2/158165311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/83809177500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mmd.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43711853491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pachetedeturism.ro/images/files/87918157591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f146e4851---molalenolibunopititolodav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfadent-volg.ru/images_uploads/files/gatunokudilisidabumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/texevakosisewufujimebus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c0c243130---13097614657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1de147b0b94100d0e41b9163640800c4/zejoderozojukosadanas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpu-beratung-brendle.de/userfiles/file/48369380208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aomiannr6f48b3nnacs3h2t0ri/vozizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moreit.ch/productinfo/file/64821840370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/gosigufivupura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36a794c62a44d365b927c723b1bc8884/kipabuginukepep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202105/file/1620784533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=gk+paul+physiology+book+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000c929.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC929 17824 bytes
SHA-256: f559d940ed618f3d360b5e1e4d979c3c90a975e11cf744b182fb994d9b8b06df
font_01_sfnt_off0000f756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF756 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 5f78f73741e0bf65503d6431bcce65dc05b8bfdecfc1cf81f5d671d52d3cb3a5
font_02_sfnt_off00011086.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11086 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1