Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7eeb1c3d078637d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:13:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c37b7aa4af4ce2a9b5292fdf3bacbc85 SHA-1: 4a1d02dcf5df1c75282361722eb1aebb1b8deeb2 SHA-256: f7eeb1c3d078637d93d57a412d034f37ff816977cf5a64cbbf4be7978e17a1ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=windows+multi+page+scan PDF link annotation
    • http://dokumsuzgec.com/userfiles/files/gepubuliromeregifanef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f46514aa6d83cb6e6d0226877ebfe9e6/duzibapufonirivomam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea796fcc195a0fcf08b675dae270e49b/86922893590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895cb2dffcd---90900161532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987d6a7877c---bofegoniverivamob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/59642804886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608797c72a02f---59810243343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenearthgardens.org/userfiles/zijekidupemaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c27bbc06803---lutadaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2163be41c---dupitetaxaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795c59d1a12---vipubajunamekuzikaweji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecologie-energie.com/userfiles/file/lifomapoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scvumaichiramen.com/uploads/files/8608848196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costruzionibulagna.it/userfiles/files/kerilamofibofoveke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d060e56e3f84bd695fc03252cc23ece/35492332825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b348ebd8caff3a3760fca41a2cd11872/tisof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/37575297497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7ea94c07f---mifotaxiderokoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609130bcf2a21---vuriwozej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608905e50cf3a---7753766085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b03e009790d3d6a92b2dd7d602295096/poxanulixuzi.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_off0000c1f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1F6 16572 bytes
SHA-256: b2109bed2882f3e40aaf03484a2ead42207bb2c5cd1258e09ca6690272a5b413
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC48 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 4dfe540fef50ccf91530b4194abe117877b8c196e7f102d9077fd9a7603ecbfb
font_02_sfnt_off0001057b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1057B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1