Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7053fc130148437f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 05:15:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f01591e8774b1cd6fd5c2a28f7b84d1f SHA-1: 6769b271d99b0dc13983d231441b8184f118b62f SHA-256: 7053fc130148437f6c7ed9b576495c71a8569d81dccf8d132627a8648c53e446
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 storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards an attempt to leverage external resources for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://maytinhnangdong.com/files/uploads/editor/files/4479668679.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://techmechengineers.com/uploads/kexodenitekoguromug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfhotel.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87182328386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magyar-logyogyasz.hu/fileok/file/59345059861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.golfusa.be/userfiles/files/ninowomedowejiximora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/82850428043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371f20f0cd3---79204796635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amadesafar.ir/basefile/amadesafarir/files/tenob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85f3cbb62a16207c7955b99f8652ed45/17100791685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613919f7ba03e---41560076489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ded5500478---41836109496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cda.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/papigujoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161496f462cc02---vigusunurivapimuwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ephtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_8F1E03591391F3BE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/tabeguxumet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnktools-th.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fixit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a9462ccdde95f478811097814000fdb/99935887552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/wevokobosidadovulerebezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/dalelovox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindentudor.hu/userfiles/file/15372569329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwhopewell.com/uploads/files/sovakegepelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolonauticofavignana.it/userfiles/files/ganeraxutezed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wanagezemof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bramfordgc.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wumulinoxubiselitir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=valid+visa+card+generatorPDF 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_off0000d459.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD459 17836 bytes
SHA-256: 63774da4f7602dbe4569607b313f65e52db69238af4f5e57d991656246db5b84
font_01_sfnt_off00010251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10251 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A68 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 27518197f91f1da42f39c0ef2f3662b6bdf7d54dba105b29ffdfdf751bbfb140

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