Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7db591f2a5a71b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-05 21:49:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 07fa3a4fd164afa82b9b8a824ac3dca8 SHA-1: e9291b1e6d5440433fe8aade5fb05d841a36d014 SHA-256: d7db591f2a5a71b472505de2a53f2d1bc86ed3f5c4d736c27b2398d45e47d9f4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of external URIs and link farms on potentially compromised CMS uploads indicates a pattern of redirecting users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cat+with+pointy+ears
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c946a4bb83---43724064883.pdf
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05c5d6b8e50e6187f48c7ad52522d0fa/rukuludapoxowiferowelepad.pdf
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/78757077031.pdf
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b020369628---49344043831.pdf
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16850d79d534f5afd7a7871d99dc79ec/28157969892.pdf
    • https://narimasu-chintai.net/jcfiles/file/26453788333.pdf
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ht39132ukllb3vihat2to4bi7o/25380124749.pdf
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/kenenep.pdf
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icm6quc1uvqi2rioeiu4qohkvt/34993124098.pdf
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8686d60f2dbd4ad0a851a53727d6e550/xajexopot.pdf
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb7f3fc35bacd596b81f85c4922a2111/44346662118.pdf
    • https://lasanisports.com/files/90713532333.pdf
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092829a39b12.pdf
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7ac838bee---xabatemit.pdf
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759b16c836f---40681000963.pdf
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7eb9d58f1c---71306264273.pdf
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d02261dda---rinunufan.pdf
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967acb2a198---257491666.pdf
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8h15vct98vn871h4o8rdt0c2oa/85598515502.pdf
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c38e5e419b---fujuwosomelebogefemub.pdf
    • http://modern-pro.ru/files/file/66869949400.pdf
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c72b1b25a51---didobuwim.pdf
    • https://xn--arbeitskndigungsrecht-best-5zc.de/userfiles/file/19941364831.pdf
    • http://venusland.vn/app/webroot/img/files/23549475164.pdf
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c487907854f---33313175677.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f339.bin
587dcb3f6b02713ae799bdd0971ea4773bf7b9b1093d9cc92e1a6c8208e17595
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF339 10532 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010b4b.bin
96e68873c7afe6eaaa5c5f9f5e0e57af88fcb27e533ecb73da125f7c22a36a6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B4B 16472 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000135b3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135B3 16792 bytes