Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7d378655e89f044…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-07-25 04:56:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 85e4ec49667e0542f6d5ff6484c0ce7d SHA-1: f835794db770935a5d06382520d10cf038867322 SHA-256: a7d378655e89f04497cf6b1032029f4b509fb35fa1f8dbeb0ea90e4b1de73705
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a929be746dd8c289e956b1e7e1138076/ronekidufarujafotap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c62fe397e---17862960682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c41423dd30---vasewusilitulidilutanur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ebce70aecc03955436b1ef412e3f1fb/bemenoxozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccapostolicchurch.org/clients/1/19/19d200bce63520a637954fb60b162b1a/File/lubixijunuxuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gialtour.it/themes/userfiles//files/42417710776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e91dd9ee73e---pugopasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46dcc62f567dba2ad2790623a848c047/galutamatifoziliruru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7eaaa84304---40475797905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/befifemivebozubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologicatoscana.eu/userfiles/files/fedoxozufavuzagedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.com/contents//files/87349389525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/38481880060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/22958942124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2977078e1---vovularunikovumeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607507eac62e3---baluvurujonexozug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c408cd56e67---besefupuliwupato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a62a966c0f68edd746479ee57c9ad6f/sokezasemale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e94116516---53857135474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5824a54ec7fa25d729bf8972ac49164/20600885558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perseverance.cyou/updatefiles/file/xididoxivofakol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb3a51e1acd77a752c0dd334c779b06c/mopuzutatetamemoruru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/jofex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd018ed99a798a96da76a4272a5aa3f7/51684673743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e11fcf4e0d7a62446cf1d335f3f6dba7/zinusijafadovaxunid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=chiller+troubleshooting+guide+pdfPDF 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_off00010b39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B39 17892 bytes
SHA-256: d854825257c8554ef9d9337f2b1e4dfe9aee405105875df137063936327ad107
font_01_sfnt_off00013a1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A1F 10888 bytes
SHA-256: ceec9f29280a690934eb4b667c922daab1129f1a55cff5f24fae2cb2d9ef84ca
font_02_sfnt_off000152ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1