Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7086b1bf20da1056…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.1 KB Created: 2021-07-17 16:49:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5f7c980e08471b4128bb768791849130 SHA-1: 498546f4f9ab41894b9a7d376d8a3067da18f899 SHA-256: 7086b1bf20da1056c04199b7d66bf014837ecd7f06229ff504147f287e3fab29
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. The presence of numerous links on potentially compromised sites suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/79351156252.pdf
    • http://anquocrealty.com/uploads/image/files/92431240342.pdf
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/73400968012.pdf
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/23705786389.pdf
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727f2fcb1a7---67569097568.pdf
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/371ccfb465c74c2c6a998338704b3526/todefozadatitida.pdf
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a214c0000df---bizitujaxibijukasexiv.pdf
    • http://www.celso.org/download/41183540952.pdf
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/86320139536.pdf
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/xaxudarasajadema.pdf
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/26525849433.pdf
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0710ab909c45a50167335df5e1ab3a5/27163803720.pdf
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/mawom.pdf
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/928172ce7ee2b3dfed993df1b476d4fe/femaxeted.pdf
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b30029ba0f---zaminavijosoxodopisogov.pdf
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba7daf94fb4527cd425469eb2fe14dd7/zozutazirabezo.pdf
    • http://wf515345.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/9089771775.pdf
    • http://pbsdeltarho50events.org/clients/d/dc/dc3fcb918f61c9276c5829b035df2abc/File/japolirawefukewizifexete.pdf
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a95c2390d5---lijenote.pdf
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/xedogifirafatonikubifuje.pdf
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/doxidobabobuxelu.pdf
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46586549e4---20444529508.pdf
    • http://woods-china.cn/ci2/userfiles/files/20210615235030.pdf
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41af8e7fba0ae8d03bf3ae25c95b8aa3/pijejemi.pdf
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.fr/Sites/cds/files/60364779921.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=the+real+scandal+of+the+evangelical+mind
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00015b91.bin
ddb850fba897f1e17d7877a4de655e21ba12a3390d10465c74b75eb726f2f14f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B91 10952 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001749e.bin
92247f707e0fcc13a68d31c5f1401595df46dd8ea1682aa58c418e00353023ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1749E 17212 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001a131.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A131 16792 bytes