Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7e8c11b536a1098…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-08-10 09:53:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bd6a8b30a0791798fa0c09fa4ab62438 SHA-1: 2dcc11ba4f8ccaae0815bac64af1bc3fe27b05b3 SHA-256: a7e8c11b536a10980a15f9e23d769666227eccc9df1d31073ce8b76802a04fc9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content. The presence of numerous unknown URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, reinforces the phishing and malware distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dfe0b0d0615ae8db2de1ef7753e70ad/sigekeboxagin.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15d0ff4a7f1f6ca6b6820e41089f343d/1821604009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da45ee46880122ab50c810e1fa900e3e/vazepovevinusivipid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11021246f9---tadebizisamixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1832658fa---jejavegufufawipasavadud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/66157705545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607435d84c308---vulivexalutudulakexox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sng3irrqut35pv04h72k41hu7b/64667710455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67726399159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/ziwavulaninewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocdangian.net/images/files/24512009300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shlawllc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/15686402778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villamishkan.com/310renonew/front/images/files/vubanesudoxafogoxokotewil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0830e0f135---pilivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/nudaxesajew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/91288690999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/vekatanavufavuwujeguxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/files/dopip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7b5rlr4k5tchmq07rtvu23au3/53435640331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zeraxafurasogonelepidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d68e2f783b4---10147046576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/mamarexoxewiraxoviviji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9495472b9---tonazunixan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+flash+player+chrome+downloadPDF 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_off0000ef5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5B 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 92f16df7406d94f7de20a67d1591c882b75932b447c7932061554cf07a9ad4f7
font_01_sfnt_off00011c39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C39 11016 bytes
SHA-256: f78e23650b9438598c5b90bf47bbe1b06a96461011f9315afc7b28fea4bece0e
font_02_sfnt_off0001358a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1358A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1