Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7dc4d1d692f3997…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 07:45:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 05947d60b0a416c821f94d111f77acb5 SHA-1: 916f19f9493a5b4361021669a575085932edea73 SHA-256: a7dc4d1d692f399706de7158de6b30c48236d9f9fb3581909c84d32daca7abcf
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm or phishing campaign. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fded8ea10312b3df4cbe5b44746909b6/zatobov.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/tisawakabanitufasunalufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1239a8ad27---bimezowekipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811fa9509b3---41597294759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba0f297930e9be7008a527a71ed114ec/7076522570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchunghadong.com/uploads/files/pegebefumedow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a42a7ffb7c6a2b813e66bd02db5c6f0/91425804701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/63673217007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/nesitefoxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac27de6f0bb---vokabozabulike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6d1835ee5---zofemiwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8efc502b8---22801321039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c16a330005868eb68ed4d162ec051b00/gopakuxareja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c91a11711fc0f4b20b708270524cb71b/fosivuduwafeladuwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/rumevipira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7095b2497df96677029124c47886b24/41687624725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutronicltd.com/userfiles/file/39306024446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608808946de46---tiwiwevaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f99adm4qqkqdu9tug4e8g7elrd/28929876916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamnitikamini.si/upload/files/88796145011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/xakofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1bee92f3d9---katamidozanizadap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liderpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pasumetabomuteretusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henri-ruch.ch/doc_pub/file/dojigokoredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1758ec1b2---diwalimonuzubotanod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=reduce+pdf+size+from+mb+to+kbPDF 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_off0000f15d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15D 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 8fe8c7f46ef3650a631e2560414be0de8292798c441397d95a964e2aab14e6ac
font_01_sfnt_off00010a7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001228c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1228C 17000 bytes
SHA-256: d5aa0ae0020245a95f532f5d04773492edfa9ff7236b52870663c2ae1312a9c2