Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f3f306205f90890…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.1 KB Created: 2021-08-21 00:19:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4d2402d3d27f2e5062de3fb2a22b4449 SHA-1: 15837f816469065becfbd9ae883f83656d701a54 SHA-256: 7f3f306205f90890e4cd6d6b841c359b15e96aae387852f8033487c7ef4b872e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document's structure as a link farm on potentially compromised infrastructure suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0581342846---31240921285.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60eb406a9f9db482ae00699f80113d43/jizotoxaboxutulirenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0b201e438---25787712750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clarkfamilybuilders.com/home/clark/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mubonivaluwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/mizexofis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095996d0da22---jepakezukolezusiteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homearcky.nl/userfiles/file/liwalalewapelaloraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608373ca6e0a8---bokosolisapurotutizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02kv5kaa27ugcvrog1cobbath0/xinibanunugitokig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/60131886982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d6119ca06---50886262538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57d735d4e49bf8efe9a45dd41eb96e67/famexulezotavivitel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctmcooper.com/userfiles/files/pokirokibogadorepotalilev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0l1jc8v1hehornqs53807s075v/49431370287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/fisolazujefagapomuwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0593c7d7f8---91319678031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukinserv.hu/file/movuzinomogolikadujevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ploainidblkvhfm2gsckpj7psf/famizibefij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impeka.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/naxebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7a64a44d7---lunatupekuluvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apronorte.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fomivinujizigele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c057d1d5fbbc728044ff948b901c481b/40814512556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8f935a93b---87208711634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=keep+talking+and+nobody+explodes+manual+pt+pdfPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF0A 20944 bytes
SHA-256: a47fd6acb089f732c9255fc588862b01975f59048af6f03578582499ba209b92
font_01_sfnt_off00011407.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11407 31120 bytes
SHA-256: fcc355f7ac34b21de05ea3c58bc07f8f9a9e39065fc770024ffd83084f526983
font_02_sfnt_off00015ac2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AC2 3636 bytes
SHA-256: 49599dd59ecc148e3129d19b7c9d19a3f2dc51b233d63fd852c14c54ea8c1f42
font_03_sfnt_off00016930.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16930 11280 bytes
SHA-256: f90c61bbe6ef999aa0d342603770b07fe006dba5549b3d40bfe63bde2f6e9dbb
font_04_sfnt_off00018346.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18346 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1