Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7a08656a2a1314e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-05-27 20:42:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ba687df1410003589d1d5b27ab9d966c SHA-1: bfa90e0a9d1f99ac0fbe938d0c68731bbd38626e SHA-256: d7a08656a2a1314e6022de6287cba30c7110a853c4fda133aecae6f9edc41101
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious payloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, with the primary goal appearing to be the distribution of further malware through these compromised hosts. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db3d61794d---83629984997.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12flj6hve7p2p16ltnd167b23q/lijigukulutolipafigovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47a078b1e5722e38878c0ac7b37be6a3/30974876886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/26317701079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae738c4d77---zuvaled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1bf7d8e6f---4674854355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82df401e5b94d332c2c75534a96c67bb/vabaruwezixesoxigatuxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/82212166983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841c72bf670---gepebapububipumeluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/413f9a7dc18c345d38fe7f0826b9c152/robeduveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d2a11d644---vuxisibitedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vydavatelstvoklett.sk/userfiles/file/41204326162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8d7775a78---zobagagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/17680074968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eksan-ltd.com/userfiles/file/dobajoxegefufaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b5382a05e---76525798998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ghdf3urcelbr1trkrbq4vpuv1b/nowosogoguvoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mhutsbuc3gm9p9d7vkejgj032/farizesivitatigaxijoxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d354e9f6967a0f63131cc631e2a023c/soriwesutefojitileta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=is+fast+and+furious+9+on+netflix+australiaPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001020d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1020D 5064 bytes
SHA-256: 6f5cad1ae579bfd4b1a7fabba956d331f58c1896f14138907179447de0fd94d0
font_01_sfnt_off00011353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11353 11400 bytes
SHA-256: 0d85d700fce7e2c15618c87825c3143010d6b370dd4bdbf414099bace8ca28dc