Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f2f7a9146ed3138…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-06-11 19:14:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 448d44f8ff85edc3a8c5e8dd86631008 SHA-1: 899677fabb81be775f5207f344b5fff1767a8a76 SHA-256: 7f2f7a9146ed3138c1f5821767fcc0bbebb75e5c7dea3c5e57011ca5bc30ba33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or to serve as a landing page for further exploitation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to PDF generation, suggesting it was programmatically created to host these 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=java+8+interview+questions+for+5+years+experience PDF link annotation
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/vonupedawaxapivisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9b4dabc45---wizegufajinenab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzliuxue.com/upfile/file/%5C/sovewakive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/59006178524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607630c6cdd07---jafadolirupodaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2466e3691a---depigazamafakevofoxopak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/zolekotirulusibuzomuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de18089e6b---70411503994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4561c6e6b1---resejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b493a74ccd7---disagedasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075991b393f5---zasewaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077dc59c454c---25426200465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/kafiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baff28104169dd4f4a624f174acc7aab/63660340289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/525b4eb66d5e3c95fc1d76f1891c6f92/telej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sg9kqm70skjvjhmjd8g6ug76ai/xuguputubexisugeremofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e0a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A1 5732 bytes
SHA-256: fb475683cfa3705f79da9dd1323b37dc37aa09cc9ae55b25efe32555f8c3f1c5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f465.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF465 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 7d829f65be1ad6072e860ad400162cd5c99d3cb6611db90020153245296168fd