Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7f5aaa804d8b867…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 00:06:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 33bbfc71d8b9cba87325abc593d47c7d SHA-1: 6ce9359c832ce0617e12845a6ad3a02d7fa150d1 SHA-256: f7f5aaa804d8b867e498ff0fc86657fef6e4dd1c888315551eb62a5f388ac2a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within the 'formcraft' plugin's file upload directory. These links are indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0eb6319f0a---81904810358.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/nisenepibowejinifejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0b774bd19---maduxadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c64de7a527d---74208229202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d145effd6103f8b6745b8e8c5d5a762/66949342764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb0375e925---88576315657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608276651a47d---78382832090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/sogavunovureru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092461b6b79e---jenojateguwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724ae066a63---kebibobope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/rupituxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stpetersame.com/clients/9/91/91902b33218228c9a3691be2563b71f1/File/karepugoxezumivupizepopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grodgolf.com/clients/f/fd/fd83fa7079552abb47853a85229f74c1/File/powiwuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fimunof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0808719c7---44463327839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38d196c930a89dcac05bf2c381ef2bc8/duwalelage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c99852554f---fukomirijibasupejazofijoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/44692130822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/97596825439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b896a739a75---80979661194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austral-immo.com/userfiles/files/20348967923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/3751431010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamadona.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gifelelax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29001a074912c3e12f56a4aab245291a/70256945187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+rule+and+exercises+of+holy+dyingPDF 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_off0000d9ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9CA 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 3ceed786e7a464f0765b226a832a978d17f028e22ea7f84133d017f39b45d8d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010af5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF5 16856 bytes
SHA-256: f7778fc3a6a4649fd5fee1dbcf72cd5d8ea28e28cb83144c199cabe136ecf815