Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7d5c9670eb7abb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 19:55:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7a7168efe6ab315af51f8e22b6930a12 SHA-1: d99de0833a6b4944fc15b7376393910cfc698369 SHA-256: d7d5c9670eb7abb48bdf039d0feaa3e2e0189c2a958ff66f504ef154fa39e745
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

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 WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into clicking through to malicious content. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest a phishing or scamming attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u6d889mvk60ph53bq938rd6e9p/62374748061.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b75185f92713d9b31702596c78c738d/sanomizonili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7d2450ca25af9a2032545780c3150e9/dusezudij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4ac6790f9---gebef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/muwadajuwitomabaxarom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulgreeter.com/userData/board/file/witafizewosabaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717caf1ff6a---daxokinugix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807f2232b77---10453301625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-techfiber.com/userfiles/file/89915901699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permianhighschool1970.com/clients/e/ef/efee9fcbc667252fc4b649c8163d3733/File/pirotodaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607394ff712d8---92381946805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb065c752f4---ximiwakenafumutakejelise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a52467cab91---85542927354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4521c2116---ronilirivewuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/favewawida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a08817f30a2f300d337ac2dbe444349b/mopavawutufosoxunezofafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb49bfacaa5---sivedujinukose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vseul1o2a67bp3fgild9io0nk4/82085362086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca19d97be7---29795143407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f27szerviz.hu/upload/files/11261368743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/jatowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a51a8dbb778---vexifuzexudoreve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=robin+wright+antiopePDF 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_off0001051b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1051B 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 859911ad4f2d580e1e99eb64c52d7c8b7f0b6496fb8f16cba7b8ff688285d906
font_01_sfnt_off00011d0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D0F 17748 bytes
SHA-256: d515d56e87e9fc6aaf46b6976bd83e359a0efde09f38fcb6aa80c2b161e27e65
font_02_sfnt_off00014b92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1