Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7046a6202a36296…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-08 03:26:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7857bd57dd1062bc72adbd853ce8c439 SHA-1: 4982a35474e57da8d454324d04d8e22f7b5b5672 SHA-256: d7046a6202a3629687a3fe0f471f77290b65e7f81f3e46fb2bffa7bb75177638
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to websites utilizing compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51c9rlfp5d7uu8s655r2t6er7g/11130875053.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51c9278c2494c108a43faf9f2d22ad5b/jufabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b1fab86dff---45397666695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbb8vbugda2jlcdi4q65gi2ies/75826166275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf5f2c56fa---fejuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607673c060ea2---vizuvinona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/tobep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/tibowifilomawenawinabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/88253669072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/sikafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15fratrowreunion.com/clients/2/2b/2b18ccadde375fd95e9ac2d5db5aaa67/File/jowaruluduzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloucesterclassof81.com/clients/23558/File/32449692443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56d72f11dc240945f4f3e7d1a7a956d0/33600138170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9547a0a0fc8c2046cc355f0aeb43d8db/pudukubob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/10884555165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q43lovdhhr15onfk45qte8d9m4/rovapavire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-6/file/55254914511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ebb60f3fb---wutufogadezibidinuzakod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecbc99c55cedd00468dad8bc5a654e20/15898732986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021050306312673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875aecaf1ec---63788996071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/userfiles/file/wudekosufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quincy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51020504963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f090e3ab4---56167593091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=europe+in+12+lessons+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_off0000f09f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF09F 10488 bytes
SHA-256: da8c99fd325da22523d3b164834737abab49d77693990c15b6d2f2732d704e56
font_01_sfnt_off00010892.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10892 17824 bytes
SHA-256: f81a3182a7ebe3ac4842a660e2abf51dd29b5fbd1390f0627c340edd1165f583
font_02_sfnt_off000135ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1