Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f07f431d2c6b4ffc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-05-14 07:56:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 1525d1bda8038a8a66981cf5f162452e SHA-1: c51c52aceb6adc2ef1acb40e28dc83616c4e5968 SHA-256: f07f431d2c6b4ffc50d99f89607548b2e6c378e8c82f1a967532baeb607f21c7
156 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. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, further indicating a malicious intent rather than legitimate content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4uh7dv6ip2jd0c6lmm1si9efg/vamoroxosalotaditaroma.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074466f65ab8---45616575876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1u4pudq3dcek2on739t75ov56/vesekiramixebozekizoline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3640c5d1b---50230471915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/741f6c6cb7de1d2795438f072c4c2861/fujujovabuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cff6e11eb8---gutirijijikiropu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81fc1688ec6af88c314533d781dd5e91/96872636192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/52336125538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd250762b8---mekedoxajilavigabun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074132fe47e8---24941735263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e10a833b1a91a99b3ce8cea53fca0bb/62091179052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88fc3a2089862fd85fd9e42b9ad15930/lirojoluzasoriwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082156e63b01---15097577913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0pfp8na88ke859qo2j7soo0nr/8062081465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanul-muresenilor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1nnr27ihgqbq561tv8225940q/tivigowurub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b645994ccb---41421315860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fdbf98731a---baxudedebodemekokusojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8e9937288---17425732060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9f2385ead---guwupinibiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ata+thyroid+cancer+guidelinesPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011fb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FB7 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 7a91a963f0ca7db69079dccb46e583fa1bf14c7cc55d1b37c7318f54e9e66ae6
font_01_sfnt_off000131bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131BC 10204 bytes
SHA-256: eacf66aa02d2ecf7f626e89a047b72bb5e2f89054c5f05f285c0f04a58dd5797