Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ff7ba92259cf47a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-14 07:43:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5bdc6e930816a9a7f6a9be2150b373c8 SHA-1: ad63a36af21e61c0f4a09919d8da5dcdabc18c44 SHA-256: 7ff7ba92259cf47af091e1969978d93bfa3e7c2b62c062fe74bb7767ff1f71ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads, likely to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body is unreadable, but the overall structure and URL patterns suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a88a14e4391---dokosijeluwulevisagim.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://msamerica.net/clients/873634/File/safixaminokimenupozijidod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6cdb095b48---sesuxatupifakatut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolingrealestate.com/your-home-cleaner/FCKuploads/file/kirefedaxikudujorov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tensoinox.com/userfiles/files/buvatazavorosivazerinine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb7d3323d4b---juzuzoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4rgbujl70eh9td9k0ebl3dce4/boririluzanumubafiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keystoparadise.com/userfiles/files/1698530051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f05611ab5---meneruvazegukimiwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/22943238470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/en8jg1ai8mr3l792meq69ruum4/goziletedolurira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/51770742930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/93114352560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855f4490877---2835328249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bcd56aae5---pupezixugenapelezosof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2prnelfh5t8ngdpbk2gvf1pcf6/levimemosafuvikiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associatedreclaimed.com/userfiles/files/83954812073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1cc7ae428---nomugafabixosejapad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea855feddfac09da8a2a3edc75268038/zupolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m43nt039877hj6ngd31ggjr4eu/94765163421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/5368794062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a347a539f---62613044338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a165dd4b72cafb9de30463976550d6e3/tulovazigivuxirusalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d35cc7f69e---zojivusagevoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+kind+of+angles+does+a+hexagon+havePDF 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_off0000e508.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE508 16976 bytes
SHA-256: 2b9f211fa285755da74ed4d4258323bbf27866986881363e056991874371c749
font_01_sfnt_off00011135.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11135 10788 bytes
SHA-256: a465dff900b1c2b5ce3be5301644880465e94b0ceb85bff8d57893fdd32a5110
font_02_sfnt_off000129d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1