Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7021d5bf70ad8c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-16 06:57:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6e1e3c91772660b0fb9abe7b556d03a8 SHA-1: 5eb87ed25c56b8fec6f83fa46fe3754d844d323e SHA-256: d7021d5bf70ad8c226e0ab3b4ece4d7cee27db88553443020345979bafd334a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a spearphishing attachment.

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fun+easy+quiz+questions+and+answers+uk PDF link annotation
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/352ea8b8e77bd69f19994433b0ba9591/rukomogakulesumitubilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/28529968279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bedfbed1b9---befulafatisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a7184056ea07ba4eab6f50f009e6ab5/waxofidojenumodesiruzebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/069i6vk9ebh4dbfppbpnvhkb84/nimun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/zetide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95005985728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bad8eda38ff73360430d4fe6272f2ae2/soxukokorigixojapivev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c9afaeefd---78135093521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608286deb0572---46891405113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105011932275470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8634537f9---49667118216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb6c176f31502bb5e85d9695ac15131e/kuwevanurekubeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1348c0724f566e39a837189cdd7ee3e6/jelowivizozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9894d9aea---sefiguwoxokoritanaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/guxixoropoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210530220906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/32803094126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb4f5c37a71c463e47e6ea9bf8fbbf0b/15465671673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59b9081ac4---kowolivexusakeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f201ad654b---52289272217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b563c0f9f63e0f1c026a9ca00ef8392/laritogax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f7f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7F0 17216 bytes
SHA-256: 67cdae05db892c1778e54919e860ae9e9ae09a3290a58371bd4195c9854ae7c0
font_01_sfnt_off00012503.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12503 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 0b536df929f188990ba172391a7eb567b3f7551c124136351bc77f7ca5acca4f
font_02_sfnt_off00013de6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1