Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7881edc6aeab5c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 23:56:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d43b462d657c17da3535d1bb1a16d0bb SHA-1: 2e72a381d70394a3630e031a92a447ee293f1824 SHA-256: c7881edc6aeab5c02d4291b0a6b739c37ac02df8d32574dbcf6c1e2fdf6335e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host malicious files or redirect users to phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the PDF's structure are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210508005438_2129468594.pdf
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9duonncn14hmau23r4o9jr6ch9/tozatadabamikosipipija.pdf
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a613b86e1ea---86066797812.pdf
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df38eftvfnqig936aj3brkepnq/vizajukexekitex.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66f502dd06---12473405305.pdf
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/buwexilapo.pdf
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/89170909446.pdf
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/48331016384.pdf
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2a26cedcb---mevelobol.pdf
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/43491288418.pdf
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/wotofexabujomavaxid.pdf
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ab4373ec014bb33c4231c21b137e0de/9840678832.pdf
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1702612e4cfd19a6da03921f7bac028d/dupanof.pdf
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cg0vk3ovlotrhgd2p9fea1oj67/97616018464.pdf
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b6150ea291f7748c9870e441493ca93/gepoxokusu.pdf
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/imdsdrqnf2927pcp3mipci84he/dubof.pdf
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df22f4e960---72757638051.pdf
    • https://arredamentigiacobbe.it/file/18078926663.pdf
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2212ed7253---60927284529.pdf
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bit59hjbt5jgf9ll648fkd526/81027996630.pdf
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m429vu1ocibtsoup65lhmiks53/topobi.pdf
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c574ad2cec0---xebigufekomipadipime.pdf
    • http://magicdiscoradio.hu/userfiles/file/sokexelopobota.pdf
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/mojosomuduka.pdf
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607182dd2cb99---25079760504.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=marginal+user+cost
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010501.bin
e8bbf828ce013218c4d5c2ab00767d8d8fbe85b57783e659bc6b4175349740a5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10501 17300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001327b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1327B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014a92.bin
cdf6673879c2b19970bf6b2363854d6baf629e76a5b463932adc9106165e21e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A92 10496 bytes