Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fc1f9f0921965bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-08-24 17:41:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0af3f45ac8c30b5feeb621b96d7d832c SHA-1: db3b8772d16d4b405c0342791a55bae103f943eb SHA-256: 7fc1f9f0921965bdaa5839a47ce1574630a7b74dbd198117f890bbcbe8cf8c5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9914

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://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609265113de16---82749027146.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722c3a19bc3---kureju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sn6hfppojtegtsr9vehrakmlv0/nobeworalakotorit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1611478e5d35e0---jebonoxuwomosozudilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8306b57f4a3bbd386e5baa86d4d00f3f/bibifujereluso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d0f8ceaf1---muzoxopoxuzolukujedexot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://destockbaby.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62577852799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1mosref.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15504633646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/10907794769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c856ed04684---sewuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/16551076554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doverhighschoolhalloffame.com/clients/2/2d/2d76883e1086210ef8e2c43836b0327f/File/pigupamidejobisodirolag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5398f43101467c1bbd9dfe3014ed4060/vitugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-9/20210509232100177107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitsubishilongbien.vn/images/ckeditor/files/89820993720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8c5c9abd4---30191058305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushimenifee.com/uploads/files/65149065292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f08463cf6f---zuwazel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.info/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///90043568620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorisemitchell.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gotoxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/wuvuridulifazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreyaghoshal.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/tesarulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scsk12.org/policy/files/files/8140123722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/lesawegalegetipedimodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706531f0270---kixagazofusamurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd57a3bcf32---89530697330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+sword+and+shield+how+to+evolve+rioluPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e2f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F0 2992 bytes
SHA-256: 2ef9540c1b6bb4f9de6d1ad6fcbb745c3708adb2794f0c98d5a243f7c85fcbfa
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF50 18476 bytes
SHA-256: cfdf910452943916ecd434839e1819fdc31e1bf34c62d6210e7726ea47c6f762
font_02_sfnt_off00011f46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001375d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1375D 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 194193029cf799965d1283287dfd0b7040f927740b7ae2f7f47fe6329ed1df4e