Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a07bdabd67e1976f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-05-28 10:01:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6d588d69549e31b4c55a5fd598725ea3 SHA-1: 59fd8a2ef3c25b263a6a29225a699fbca75da7c3 SHA-256: a07bdabd67e1976f1ba8bb058589905cf077a077ba102c6c699dceac4ab95970
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uerjr808mg0iot1de6hojoq1g2/fapolaza.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad1c01314a9---97799816358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/epije8hvg4cbdh6tjstf8onbs4/jotida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/425e5901c8e5c6e73fc2dc69188bde3d/86857560974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bititechnika.com/uploads/file/supudupukuxube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef70f50b3d---15421895479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607102b7e3222---41228697836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb3c48b3f7---tokolokemope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32541144e2aa4e5a1dfbccdfd7816046/lilujidujojawipovokug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce14ddb83e8e48deca53e0b4ef632168/wodenagijifiwufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b417cabf65e0d5e2ce05904499ea975/87892612929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd87de7c4dd524702b3506dd4a3cba4d/bulifanokisutojagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b285d700d3faf503b0a1addacfb05484/jiwudamubeluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886d9737bf6---73038965350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/96045910970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/58485780627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=pandillas+guerra+y+paz+primera+temporada+capitulo+47PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off00010551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10551 5712 bytes
SHA-256: 14078508eb1a292c66ae2a8a9e046f98071491aadc020ce3389355c96989b9b4
font_01_sfnt_off000118d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D7 14676 bytes
SHA-256: 8191d9702b7ff5d3d46c5cdbb67fd2cd386a884ab27be9ffb7bd33977df938b2
font_02_sfnt_off000146d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146D1 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 532315dfdc59b350d447ad91845dd8cc72a836e684f536ab9a4305dc5b53fb8e