PDF malware analysis — malicious · a7ec863a0ff95822

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:46:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20

MD5: fddbec400e8d3257d4f0ec183d2a55cf SHA-1: 0cf760549fb99068a78d332573ac992829071320 SHA-256: a7ec863a0ff95822304d190e5d5c82e5de1b45ed5ddef84f60f1a8a16d761f7b

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to lure users to external resources, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://master-sign.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39007209373.pdf In PDF document text
- https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39780251609.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//67039762790.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a52024d66f6996804fa26b52942979e9/mizokutamef.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a850a37d55e---zowogadiluxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa36b0fbcf431cf16d3be21769151ac8/bokimagutekemujas.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/veroku.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ccae3b8fb8---21900903001.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e49d394b3d05fd6943dacb1169d1718d/datufesutazojok.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://ekransamara.ru/files/2320436964.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://gmicropilotes.com/uploads/files/zijezipufimunugesojanenad.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b101c028947---kovasubakofijawukawuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809ce0b7409---88310098839.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c66004e3c---581474432.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24efc52240c33001aeedb600cf6ddb38/5204143878.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5f6f2c788---18328880248.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://dienmattroigiasi.com/uploads/files/subusosonevuna.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bcc0147218---75714130521.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eae28dabc6d7056c8d81a4157aefc633/4184521193.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/39228455575.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://ahchala.com/img/file/manubego.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://1960vonsteuben.com/clients/d/df/dfb5e1b83ea85bfdc5ef1da934264264/File/19122399616.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f09fbe6d6f6fbc6e7d54bae67b1b12b9/25991495500.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://kubabus.cz/novy-web/upload/file/wegenolowabonoliza.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8b15s9b0b13i3h4b5o127e39q/voxuwiludududokojijipe.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=right+to+privacy+and+data+protection+in+india+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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000f8d4.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D4	10912 bytes
SHA-256: `560ef0149f727555442d7631f0fe344b7590b0155d1eae9732789316c3d4c054`
`font_01_sfnt_off000111e6.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111E6	17828 bytes
SHA-256: `773c6c4f61dc98a19adedbd3f56e243e06604e3e3c3b7f938cc1bbd0aa0773b9`
`font_02_sfnt_off000140d6.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140D6	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`

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