Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7b14e56e227e9b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 16:00:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 762fa7a0ce9a2aa52abff851042dc4e6 SHA-1: 055c5073931e73b026aea47d347eee8b31415265 SHA-256: f7b14e56e227e9b093b8bc837c65f3834dde1bf3956a92b3fc25540f8dda0223
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URLs are a primary indicator of the attack pattern, likely serving as a lure or a distribution point for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0bef976291---37068778997.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082494f98c18---pimovukajonod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cf9243f12f3a5ad34597e40bf96b1cb/gitifomiputivotaragonele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/miravanofaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0daacc4cb9---58750697145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/51358468497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dba664b2eb0a4fd433a5ab274c55b88/72528252075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuvuongcorp.com/luutru/files/zonezuxaseruxiwojeluxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicofrisoli.com/userfiles/files/36260300189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc05d2a57b---pejebiseveraginonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/nuzobufusaxevezawotoxeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d87e439fd---33786431524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/fumomukumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/petubifimarufilikax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b2aa30cc1f---pafizobebobivew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d6d36283bde49868958d9c32c12c554/labesekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a50abf45034---vunubiwuvokuzaguwusapego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/82785342332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac55da5dc3fd50f9935fb5b601122f28/kekelukolumujawivevagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/mibemijugovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3779f51a3bea742899f4a855f3376f9f/pewonaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/dabufegafud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exporoaster.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/xufavanugerojowoxoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607866747e11f---30171889150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946bb8a5383---24667662457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=chapter+7+the+evolution+of+living+things+answersPDF 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_off00011009.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11009 17040 bytes
SHA-256: e6a7aa89cacecca19f68b68c5a6e7d3ddb65ba804decee683f7643dfb51c5f9e
font_01_sfnt_off00013ca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CA2 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 6ca91618e5f150aab0fba56bae47c1d2f7aa8b9b73712f537e38b342e21562fa
font_02_sfnt_off00015633.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15633 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1