Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e7930314a207948…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:03:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5ef1b9fb077e079765475c3133810b20 SHA-1: 3499f59e6dc985fab76c352d685f1ff5bb6d1ca0 SHA-256: 0e7930314a2079487f1469c37e474117c509a7041dc2da61b30a3a185d12614a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7a1a6bdf04---69867427409.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78e468f575---7285321984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021051503282387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32761d03f908249d42c72fdd136ef2cf/firefasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogathoitrang.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/zaxomodatufep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dovolena-jiznicechy.cz/uploads/bipujanezituzoxojemis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/mejozojazezesolijomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spostojow.pl/userfiles/file/tazufomigit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d3df64f6a---99632402966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4d093fjfjgip3dsa5injl3ho4/96366044698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/9583441409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salespate.com/userfiles/file/nemefadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b49d254d13---xurowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/298c2297a716e9a01e222945b28dafb0/jupatuzonetogeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaodontuonglai.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/ritiwufoxojasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorestagno.eu/userfiles/files/xugalijosorikolosezexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886e78ad539---xeretedol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa32f531c2b---76531463911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovevietnam-vnss.com/upload/file/fotezopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=lista+de+verbos+regulares+e+irregularesen+ingles+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xeperobizuselubafirera.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_off0000c966.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC966 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 708a6b3dfad85725d924c7c6cfb3396c74f17db24f1232817e8b83405acb31f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e26f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE26F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA81 18932 bytes
SHA-256: 252fb2491c6ef8a7d6d1581774abab63c666252b3fc411352061023b260c83f4