Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dea7f9fc7bb07067…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 15:09:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ac8a2b8cf83c049eccdf8f8e54dc0e3a SHA-1: fd72832913a69d7a9e39d0bf786c92cc8b11ff9c SHA-256: dea7f9fc7bb07067aa74cccfa06c0940642edc24968ae9bdd386a42eff025c9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious content. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to host and distribute malicious files. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the compromised CMS uploads strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5ed853td0sevn8ect0j4up5js/53394937068.pdf
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/682dc2ae9658f41a5c8d9e9363268b08/17221633274.pdf
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609be3cd5b5e7---38786931875.pdf
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bdpq5fptq9kma3t7f2anbmmhi/sarufejuzex.pdf
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9f308e4e48---67332909056.pdf
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/32566595730.pdf
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b9c0eced6---14218689315.pdf
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084645245724---vevuzip.pdf
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/gimojumifodaxelo.pdf
    • http://benedictinoselrosal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19378032168.pdf
    • https://5a.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1813961858.pdf
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcfbcc9f457---88851791219.pdf
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmgfhji7q8m1kg6pbisba1tfah/gewimavo.pdf
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5223371a5---37485291082.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758e9b10e19---kafixirakabizus.pdf
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/wuxojolomubiferukadoj.pdf
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/sujifizirow.pdf
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745ead176aa---84692929868.pdf
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52d02b5fa120f752ababfcf26b7b942e/boduratanevezuvinesevov.pdf
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900d61d842f---98722104766.pdf
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e7d1e8cd393e4e48717167e126c9f08/53663149593.pdf
    • https://www.groupenahno.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/536hivdpenmhmlno88hhk7qg64/93981605851.pdf
    • http://herculesestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/33082223533.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=taking+their+cue
    • 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_off0000ef8c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF8C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000107a3.bin
f03de64e4362b378b15409663faae64525977bfda49cd4ee60706da097af82c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107A3 10332 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ee6.bin
5a223296f0e65e60de83d3ecd97facb5874b56d73886eda637581c3377b9b48d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE6 17960 bytes