Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7567b5fcfa811ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 20:58:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7603d9808c78c48b131d083f3c63ccbb SHA-1: 525c5d1a2373110199b2ef526c1b9a422679417d SHA-256: f7567b5fcfa811eeae8d474d0c16da4aaab5267f705cf048846d7025fd957ecb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=outline+map+the+vietnam+war+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5245d3041---3189235421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b69ca67af34---83993088195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c217263657e03577d9c61590c43977e4/kejizeweloluxuzuluzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4ca114bc7---73591211729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab271d5a2822bc5df6c1a3a9b31501e8/44699690346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/32537948191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papaicountrylodge-longstay.com/user_img/files/lomag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taitung-house.com/CKEdit/upload/files/17232543168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf2e971d030---dewuluvuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3qq94g52mjbirn5bikafeo2nk/80777922370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210524035103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b20df892c09fd17154abcb8ce53a2a1d/11071721985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/dirirafumal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89a84fe4180659bf63ced9d8480ab18b/lobum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-23/20210623004924345319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf09d42f4c---60767607940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d992a2a0f---92818844738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aebedee4b0eafb1dae9fef6e87cea7e/38479389189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/lexopebifibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/6358840019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69fbmispqb6mho3nr1bmoihvf3/82084569174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/8382843954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6368dcba90ad4b262e798464ec71a170/bopegaporisuxafebekulebab.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_off0000ebc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D5 17220 bytes
SHA-256: f70d2c32ff045cd76ada8465ab3061b5bdd249f40dc30eb56e4ab59e9119058b
font_02_sfnt_off000130b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130B8 10672 bytes
SHA-256: c8741a81943fd08ade305d5dcc35837ffa808f3eb9f3c72841bad3974bfd1d83