Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d07833986c920787…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-08-14 00:25:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 15f8431835400fbb469b505162cc85b8 SHA-1: 092e51bc5c324211763402d8d7124026cbd9547d SHA-256: d07833986c9207875a55e8fd9c75884db6ece8b13879c8761afd55d0cb4eb15a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abc1198bed---40900075835.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d57b7e90f6b---zefazigugaruposut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reginahajo.hu/_user/file/9686835191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/41199602568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebeaf58e7891459114b18fd50ff8bba5/2315592758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6940798de19e8999039dbd377fe5835d/taxapixukej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinching.com/uploadpic/files/202108110337419753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eb9e704c5aecb7e336091e37527ba79/zafowifijefimuritizimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210706184302613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/74846020668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/doboxikofelutojef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/ramexika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc981cac91---48762795695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/63625449672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/13236549998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magooferta.pl/uploads/fck/file/malirubakuvanifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/14934365014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pollackmihalyiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42517327490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harmony-lazienka.pl/Upload/file/wesal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/towigodowakij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28476921663296ef2eb5e751dc11db05/28719377808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b02c1a73ce---xibuvimufebubed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralcogtc.com/uploads/file/29332431067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+transactional+and+transformational+leadership+theoryPDF 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_off0000e9ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9CA 16784 bytes
SHA-256: 22582448e3223c7c9e84992b945a18fdeb351cb21e20652fdbfc82b070e87caa
font_01_sfnt_off00011544.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11544 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D5B 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 14c0171a6452948b666e2a78792fc18d2019da99e9baeb3898512d442f7cf6d0