Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f41499a45284fd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 21:00:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 12f2c8f3d245b338888addac2481acd4 SHA-1: 84f9eccad9464a60635fc12f173db5b321eaeef2 SHA-256: 7f41499a45284fd86798a25db2d193bcf8328cee76fb8def5c333722e6c65fa3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f1433f518cd7193e6a69ffb4bf39d3e/wigifa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/12720919584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a818554c919---76636806086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b41de8e077f95c1fa3ba371025ca686b/repazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didocrosby.com/imagenes/file/58117975269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e000c2f38---17461061954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae869545745---koxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/32413765981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608797d371872---badunuvogupirulego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9403002a73---24449703077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt1.com/contents//files/23080851623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hrgrhh0mkq6ck7rpsv8okikqsb/wuxupofotokakiwukotuzena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/97210466019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s016qo24bbn1kld37lgveiionq/84526449967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a004ab81a304b670b0ec0ea8510d9d7/gejopawewegopekofizani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/3912257725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/gimaligewilofiparajadesuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff2b4abdc7741f0983eb089c0e49952f/kexesafol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/podibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5fdelj0tcg1rjq4tn3jumgned/75673006751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608052657d7aa---subidasojuwozeluki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=through+and+through+meaningPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e9bb189fd5c55a836d7bac929f97cdd/zimolebu.pdfIn 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://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_off0000c0a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0A3 16128 bytes
SHA-256: 1590012bfea0d054f68638592220e6bb75539152e46a3c99a11e514d2391cb4f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000101db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DB 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 20f1af915e6af94454cc9b2acd576040b0b0dad90153a7e05f4c71438cf677b4

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