Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0c7587d70fd0f55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 23:23:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 34305d031d780a0f51555ad9ae43dae4 SHA-1: 237a04207ef4a2ed57ace51275608009c6311d4d SHA-256: a0c7587d70fd0f55416f9c718ad1f90a143b8b511d492ea57203af61352651c8
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 file contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links indicates a likely intent to lead the user to a phishing or malware distribution page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=masao+butuan+first+mass+evidences+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://clubesquilacoma.com/uploads/files/91751125861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.nl/userfiles/file/vosojilubipuwiwelowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3ce9344bc---nivuxakezawavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phr4u.com/files/nebofumofowidiwolinoteser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/017ad5def6c98483c91b05b2a0aa6eaf/zulofemusibujafodoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/vakutulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/40157653741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960ihs.com/clients/e/e0/e0b58928a48036c9af8d6cfc9cffdd99/File/18654463454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/260739029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856d851e6d0---86848812749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be10b1501e6---28176596736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freshchannels.com/home/sites/freshchannels/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12650485224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/16759166479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ec4e9f95d---26847657259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/tawixefefabagaroxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca94dc5897fc97f886f999379ac26637/zanukubezumodusapev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezszilvia.com/images/uploaded/file/gibego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7447790ac---53235327464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/42469984467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flairpens.ru/uploads/files/60176400065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db0nictn3jujpu43p9a8gfprcn/45455098928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b4a0846b7---73334760058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/26982110930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-brno.com/files/73350861897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/395186ad7806d85671b2015d4b10564e/82797919530.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_off0000ddd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDD2 11032 bytes
SHA-256: a54ef087e676a86bbb0e0eeed6da7a566a01083c3e7cf75ac21fbc2802d1d01a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f75b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF75B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F6D 17188 bytes
SHA-256: e31bfdc26523f61db979017b406ee401e365e3c9c2bf6fef3d109bf42d857a22