Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7079cb144faea8db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 02:01:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: f6ca896a9acbd9df32f4083231205b5b SHA-1: 175a6afb89608c9a182a859c247792cd646e177c SHA-256: 7079cb144faea8db7b87aaf814bbf14ac160c884a9ef3d56d2dfa518327ebdde
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload locations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, including those on compromised sites, supports the attack pattern of directing users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://mauchlineware.com/html/chapelstreet/web/userfiles/files/84204710413.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mycocoa.org/images/upload/files/mosowupepugoxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e75adcd429---87733375541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b6a58a096---10740857880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koetec.com/home/~ptow/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84428195806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citescolairedeledit.com/include/file/radoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroshima-teishaku.com/userfiles/file/mobavufesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinebadmintonacademy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85357846878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/39121988213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613303d3adb23---40849790323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnomatec.cl/upload/file/52566369722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertex-decor.com/userfiles/file/22386279505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/fugabokake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://systemsbiology.at/uploads/assets/file/33199870502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrzion.com/data/userfiles/files/65486237143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16ad6c326edbd0ac30e677e076f57524/bedifapidokele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sudeoksa.org/userfiles/file/20210904074433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.eu/slicice/file/25727465473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yachtales.net/admin/userfiles/files/31414233399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesrealsense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70262404433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bio86.fr/userfiles/fichiers/71372335912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvbm.org/pds/userfiles/files/23288655964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90024564231713c8a9e5d0338c63d183/xiweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=modal+verbs+exercises+advanced+level+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_off0000dadc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDADC 18688 bytes
SHA-256: bee1cf25975f9f168cc5f60d9bdc8fb66d9cc2b81f4a0502c2d10e20d9e113cc
font_01_sfnt_off00010b3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12351 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 3f8f32fb05a35988ed0c3405c768843951ac810a3ebcae6b2718d8286c39968e

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