Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7a0c58b5120ca1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-23 20:27:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9a2335872c20ce4b940dad7c35be06b4 SHA-1: 3587e3f8dbd9e05348a621d9154b8a55a5c31ebd SHA-256: d7a0c58b5120ca1f6ca5123095d551f229e646958c830058d5f5874a031498f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm nature suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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://svazekobciorlice.cz/userfiles/file/27913684591.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f58408d347f---51296331261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitoutdoorz.com/file/ZHBDUtoduU6H02xz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundreamz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30054058977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c82477235---wowipuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/79021166929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c996f7d6dd1---xulati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6348d57a812342d1370158f584ffc023/tagawaferitefavabugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pm33h6g8u19p43fj01998ohj01/1677482880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087070af2b38---sivetafimezuzefogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ul69hpiluipki89nobfp1c8f2/39962756465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delshadian.com/public/userfiles/file/92370628767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1le1ticaetfrkebilni1lf7da5/51394935616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f0ea78b0bf02248f8596815b6307391/11853297204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc0109be9f9b9d8268294a13f8d1871d/35691094872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6d6c532b2---wazurawojiselo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a9b087898---xovovusimuvixes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/32164583341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87adb93cd5---83274586186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4svancouver.com/clients/c/c8/c8601140a4283eb9b700f388a83987a3/File/dorobaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/31526723003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiumaradelsossio.it/userfiles/files/90744013741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48f2888d90708000b005ac6223817087/nagebarug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087de14a980f---ximunuzononotemivopazad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=le+mariage+de+figaro+resume+de+chaque+sc%C3%A8nePDF 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_off0000eecf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEECF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106E1 17328 bytes
SHA-256: 6308413cab65dfd0797a129aeed6158cbc2b9e26393d01e1dfa2fc8e97c12bf8
font_02_sfnt_off0001321a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1321A 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 54984342cb604b96f36481ec1e31ed67e63d46645cf1e70e897271e6cff2008d