Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fa7c1a88f27afea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-09 14:50:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3c0ddab607528bed53b0fa8e607e6ff3 SHA-1: 07654825cbb57e7ca1e773ca578e71244aa9b5ba SHA-256: 7fa7c1a88f27afeacd52c612fa9b7d153eab9ed358fd8cdbe652255d0d3bd1a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple links to potentially compromised WordPress sites suggests a distribution or phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3ef76571a---91492099897.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acaa2e32987c3a6aa85fc4f976bc9810/mazitivipidiziforose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/45301264683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a350bf212c---xesew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/fixixivakezifiwusitub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ejvs1bj13lqdpvhijrl0ktkmet/28715187948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5872cab257---54268139128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globaltruthmediagroup.com/clients/a/aa/aa8380eac451876ae6ab993bf3a720d6/File/63540445740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/nufew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/lulebomozolibodolaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs1964.com/clients/a/ae/ae3b7fe25fc1fd458a9bccd7578bee9c/File/94797275635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4j416eo6e9cfqgqdsbctui8c72/97416662759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdf8njcp9d77v2tk6rjniv6gr2/73794820742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapacargentina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1257711436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098238370cf7---64005978494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/vobepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/23633557763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab718843cc9---kimuledoradimupoxukokalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3667d38979bcbd4fcb1113cdfe063dc1/6592624007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21339174b3---ninenajeminurekasupub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/femunon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62386842f7---ribejododetipatirimimem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spamsmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/25365626491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2aafbedf96e70267770e66fa0c6b011/81692383271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=magic+retouch+pro+for+photoshop+2020PDF 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_off0000f264.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF264 10944 bytes
SHA-256: cf29aadc52ca9bb9512d38f5a24daf55eb2c187ed407a5caa080dc827d358167
font_01_sfnt_off00010bff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BFF 17904 bytes
SHA-256: 7009da4a4b0e357f0f23757fa183faa5b42fe02a7437be7464b27f3b775372fe
font_02_sfnt_off00013ade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ADE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1