Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7029b14cb7acf8f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-22 13:37:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 75d7141f85ecdd758bfc27bc866905b7 SHA-1: ec2e9b61b9d9eb4f081f89f340c9424ac009b420 SHA-256: 7029b14cb7acf8f42909e6a085ec77ee7eca5d1ff2c5fbc5e32e4e11ce8716fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common phishing or malware delivery technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b66c4ed362---sazoxarutagumunuzarutapuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://angelsolutions.ro/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chernogolovka.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86704808539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleartunemonitors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokusajuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/82097099750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltprof.ru/userfiles/file/modezuruvabemuvusisipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superchills.com/userfiles/file/zetavaruwunabofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savalis.ru/userfiles/file/nasazaligilugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/lopadataxukamozurepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyccenter.com/images/Upload/file/kidekenez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614958cc6892d---35687539929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cofetariafraguta.ro/UserFiles/file/41234176999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchkar.com/ci/userfiles/files/mivupakulezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.loisirs-auto-occasion.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kadamotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/gunobevolotasiwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wu-pao.com/upfiles/editor/files/80040611539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroi-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/divepomipiwafijivibowusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.info/userfiles/files/25113294444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iagclaims.endataclaims.com/ModCoreFilesUploaded/file/9182550097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danies.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tokupusafavunelixupoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jairdefreitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sumivesivorifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/10418732663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/85808904038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/naxapavobuxugawamezoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360a91f1df3---60744727195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=hacker+keylogger+appsPDF 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_off0000c2a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2A4 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 88768ad69dcbfb8d722b43a2d8a7418a667c6913af9e650cdf198cf41b9a9b03
font_01_sfnt_off0000da89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f29b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF29B 19492 bytes
SHA-256: 3efbd139bd1e85653502d2dfe32a8e09dbdccc97f5991ae353fa5c5deb7401d3