Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be7c7d8cf74de0bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:20:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: cb29abd0c715bcf3e7fcd6678b4a072f SHA-1: 79bc81893c6b06ff11d398e2698db231d1dcfc0e SHA-256: be7c7d8cf74de0bcec48a7d5f5eaaa428db3ad6b010245a9d15071497fe14aee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/leo3encbkdfaok999v8v6ns1f0/lasununajebutivobedale.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://luvnchrlysenglishtoys.com/clients/861429/File/26976190453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56ko0m8776c78agvu8qb6si97q/fuzinubidexilalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d3a216a6e---4033710556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/vujibefazedikuzikuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9162195520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vialivonica.eu/userfiles/files/77304434819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/70527003977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tinnituskozpont.hu/files/ximubuzozenafigale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planetamama.ru/files/file/52628797698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc4ok92sfk4c693qjv2cm06ppt/bilonipinome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteplacard.com/UserFiles/file/dekelinego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/tokuninamitujume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202109/file/1631054861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/17199140216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0a182ebcfc422ad405cfcdda4382263/84186326713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhqbtcvpj2ajqmp5hlba7dr4et/dagozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/motomodidafedojux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wufiwemetunuramaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113e56887ff0---zosusuvuguvawezuxuzimoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf37bdb6102ff6b7b5e9d70eef839697/zujag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japan-railpass.info/images/blog//file/totovuzunopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75223754068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dff2cb8af141bed9c7b17121ddbf0ba/98375282175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=solving+systems+of+linear+equations+graphically+worksheetPDF 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_off0000ca2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA2D 11608 bytes
SHA-256: 4250827301c354195e29294d1c808e42aefbed6e44c6424dc4d42c40521d7ae7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e55b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE55B 17748 bytes
SHA-256: e47a6d90835d065ed500444c7873eb91abcebf9c1ceeb759f7673bf85168f828
font_02_sfnt_off00011398.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11398 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1