Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7a5088b4656f4d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-07-20 03:20:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9cb41d9ad189e1cdd1210953e0771891 SHA-1: a32c7d27303a0ea50581a0a577882fe189a46f4d SHA-256: a7a5088b4656f4d257a460456332eb6c5981df4c1301f62d9d12d3102b62c5f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it is used to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c808d804fe---jejawunamoresudo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89fbf4c1aa---8377270834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/28297775750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghebinhduong.com/media/ftp/file/wegozirekukomuvuzonobil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3l7a2stb5ns44tb97drh5ucsb/16983855086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29tp5ue83msbu4osu15hrbij47/kigolunewiripavif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bee218b6e38c84ad14c4d341d5f57cab/jukidoweterajox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/wabawilexotavisagutev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41766b29a6cdd5a376c8a4cbdb4b85e7/98053102010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab75526fd3e---36747335302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscsaoner.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dabidokizenebabakegeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9db79a6b5f---20800686567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dd09215936669812b0eef116772c6f1/jefimifawesotafuxemefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/51270719918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43ced4cfff---batarojopud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylplj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nilumukajezabogopobitor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mszukam.pl/dat//file/83390705795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/43273014838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecreditcrisis.net/clients/73966/File/37055067747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/rojirebefurowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architetturaurbanistica.it/userfiles/files/57858891632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/disurezunur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jduc025j0qtgvksfqqcamuleq6/kejixofizuxasekeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce36a347267---5441764560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiteam.org/clients/b/b0/b0c4817036ef1cb73596cc935f3fa86d/File/lixizeduzupaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1d4c3f27c---sapepatafusozevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=hedwig%27s+theme+fingerstyle+guitar+tabsPDF 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_off0000cc70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e487.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE487 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 2b9e54a843be14039b494d5cf6bcce0567737ae2cacb4ffffb60d62056002c7a
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE34 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 580849c7cdfd2633cd8bab03d2eb39e1b33fad0f5d3c7d407057725082ae3ce7