Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7e826f6614deff7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:19:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8acbcdf0206e793d18a57ab8eb53aad9 SHA-1: 0e3318935c13051d614eb11fef42151c206c2aa1 SHA-256: c7e826f6614deff7b2cd7281ea722b03fc5a75b3f73c683632a710805ddb0f95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malicious redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad68a06b976---26067972233.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce52c1830e---ziwegoxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.seja.lv/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/61941736426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16f80a4097a733b4926fb88e1f4b12df/63434717128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb9c97ebc2b---62194448518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagyberki.hu/sites/default/files/fck_uploads/file/dovogebabuzipagowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phucatgarment.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52077270902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/digizeposexoguvajasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eaa45e5544---78440238392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4035dcf97e---paxekefanolomuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotang.net/userfiles/file/25883243484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc552138c0a2dc5aaba246ddadfac380/58962829579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/delupobipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/mozafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehbo-oostkapelle.nl/userfiles/file/puxusugijikigitapifemux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ed1bc30a1---89810546626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/980489c9f50605172fa56027b4d2aadb/17937668168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ave-france.com/pics/files/86944363064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fad3e71971---94837767858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://helicopterleasingservices.com/userfiles/files/koreluteguretoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be1e4e7688a---6172497735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeandhearbetter.ie/img/shop//contents/kogifovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60FDED5EC6D02.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/028007d41b63d5b29655efa99df3af52/gategiwibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=numerical+methods+for+nonlinear+algebraic+equations+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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000122cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122CC 19100 bytes
SHA-256: 359429d0cdf2c62234d8ebd87385b89dce1cb45c98b7ab2f51ed775bfc9616fb
font_01_sfnt_off0001552a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1552A 11432 bytes
SHA-256: 743c671b2a2647aec5de8d5cf37968ed573f378095ff800ad408b0be3514768b
font_02_sfnt_off00016f32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1