Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a7c8613fa16fa1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:47:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ae3522a1f1b3e3880c976095a2b0dddd SHA-1: 9e7a447f885ebaee12394aeb99f89f4119c6e249 SHA-256: 1a7c8613fa16fa1d4a917f05ba120557a28614143c8051be254c18c633b48e8b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document containing embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs. The heuristics indicate a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, likely for distributing further payloads or leading users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13b6150c3681e80bde24d53359e5b86b/xexoveguvawaxabiduvokak.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.leasing.net.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98050786679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df951036d415a3b8e1255297fe316b81/ridizal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtop-eg.com/userfiles/file/62856676436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611cb1bb17620---65514512524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://activesolutionelectric.com/images/file/wadagilaxivigaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cf5f9cccf887745a0ef461a9893bead/76332428157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaidongdo3s.com/images/files/78631348614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/nigemewikuritedeziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114f9667aba2---43193684535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9af0bc78c---38561059872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tafgambiatours.com/userfiles/file/92278038281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/70318056510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosvanbeek.nl/mindcms/js/ckf/userfiles/files/kaziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210707020606155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jo6n35gqoftjmo2bctmnj47fpl/xovezeneropudamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamennykoberec.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/24771602213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catbasailing.com/upload/fck/file/81296718601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e1a0af1d8---5099665498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec487227b6---xijopoboji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3do5ouqv78c2f0acjs8slm0ka5/kesixevexuwenerufupufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimstudioinc.com/media/files/39492316156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/pesekigogesuxuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu/data/editorfile/59929429587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cef4ba94a1e---71800488610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/mosimekezasikebewozag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=geography+map+work+grade+10+pdfPDF 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_off0000eab1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102C8 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 3a31d4d41b209a62389914bbc9a27673ba7277aa10572744c8f1b8b168534109
font_02_sfnt_off00011c10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C10 17860 bytes
SHA-256: f2d87e367c102cd61c7de2ad7a723861345d1243dc70640c0534b20390984703