Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7cc81a5a79fbf10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-08-01 03:58:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9a835d626a64e572d4301e22ecee41b9 SHA-1: badddd89095690ddc57d6a7bcb9944741e55e845 SHA-256: d7cc81a5a79fbf10a71399f9df100c55818749deedeec6748237ef0ab4387f31
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on 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. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests it serves as a lure to external malicious resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+clean+gas+range+burner+caps PDF link annotation
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3b234f1982---10142084635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40q7gv5mupflau1qbfijo1a32u/roretig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d444323cb2---73463739483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6276ae4379---33862534350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telorgabus.com/contents//files/53347607591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmkaudit.sk/101/upload/file/19640153389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/suzik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac95dbf41c0---55569414483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/37421246082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/51354030877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-24/20210624075707716863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logistiekverbeteren.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuvatimagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://censcakmu.org/board/file/files/58654088523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5040242b04---xukepinawafis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/luliwagaleruzejamemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/jikukemul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609adb8c64ada---mamaxasonirixexef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/68015819591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/434183d13fd8ffa2c55d0c34ea05b2dd/bunovasawelazije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3270c9b2e---fazezurafovidavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8042v0929cj9rm0lclpba6v73b/12320946702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gestaocipa.com/public_html/Imagens/file/59253466973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/gemex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607ec816135e4---kagimamerodexe.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_off0000df84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF84 15972 bytes
SHA-256: e58c924a6baf4faf52de02eff40671a14bfd263841bd5c9889f9a6529ae76739
font_01_sfnt_off000108b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B3 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 9d105e644f96ba1132574c14dd95a1a6fc53f24fe2a0d8d0ce0fef47c5529716
font_02_sfnt_off0001217b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1217B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1