Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fff0ac2cba74070…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:38:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: aaa5e7f68644970b370d13e51e64190e SHA-1: d4247367cee4a53b2d61bdaf0a282fed5aa35fcc SHA-256: 7fff0ac2cba74070f46091fa7f03e0d7669ab1a38fd31b0e3bce89c245865743
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent to distribute or phish.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=literature+review+on+technology+in+education+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c73c07ea91753493ea9b1803b9719c32/lurew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/74349453835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754a7948472---35049635455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcharp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31798489075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52c71ff058bd0217a94c766ed23d0d96/9253123174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15f8396461f12cbbd041a1cb4fb4c116/dididuboxajikunijewesofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d439e820a9f3084eb8b2997241854d3/1825067294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rezgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/sisoduvigupifufinibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/73815150076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioaba.net/userfiles/files/bitakel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5nj3p4b7ruaas9l1q1efqkeuic/67777564059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptkas.com/kingkong/userfiles/files/gekogamilux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/262c4b7405669717ce70ac6d75c35209/gaxinebefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mik53q8f4e33nr5khaq6lhmd22/55155332822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mds-horizons.com/upload/files/ligekuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3191dabf17---70586709284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laduses.nl/image/file/14849925599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnafarms.com/clients/864068/File/96368381571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clarkfamilybuilders.com/home/clark/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5820561642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/zonamani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53690421836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0ffacb170c---54594192686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/neroxikududozekaza.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_off0000e04c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE04C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f85e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF85E 18292 bytes
SHA-256: ca6fc99b4f6f0d53080aa814c73dc9a5c2eca8b5ca8437694356f8b6e0dc822f
font_02_sfnt_off000127b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B4 11052 bytes
SHA-256: e3fd49b9073440b1609a159002c45171ce52273ae7a6eb8d4971c0210eb61fb7