Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7093f8aba433d2d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:37:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f086485833779a81f4b80e22ae01541c SHA-1: 3b3fd7724f068aa50a1a29b472edc0a976f481d8 SHA-256: 7093f8aba433d2d59f508a59c0fe4d117a03c60e9a3445220e8ccc06b5357c5e
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 storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure suggest it's likely part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=components+of+learning+environment+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/32206385018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77jfuvrhfq6ocsfr74s9uij0rb/jotup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/85727128099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anm-av.de/uploads/files/27863602404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/baxajakezuvozisebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ticketsperiodico.com/galeria/files/karovami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef65lvs4dtpu4f1gqknuism3a3/49485476239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c9d25311ebbeb8dbbe1fb6f1b39c4e2/bevalagitaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/tetanexepedim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0c6e646d17---mezezujunofajikotex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegaletrotta.eu/userfiles/files/tibijijuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/guvumutivukarifanene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9109647a614b076d4b48e8924b2ddb0/puxavupaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4841b675503d5aa7ebe0e654977e4eae/26044989029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/jiwerufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720a945ce37---pexixamalimomazakir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfvf8c3o9f74a4495fl03phcg5/37890638448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/87426023397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5percent-design-action.com/upload/users/files/19060327584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/tomimufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/9972700257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611819fb8dfd5---74731076720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917ac4acb26---45816035293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e9ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10204 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 0fec95d990c3f990cf87e2095a335ff34a49c40afee8e543670daf0619ce1591
font_02_sfnt_off00011b27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B27 19204 bytes
SHA-256: bec30b16c3c9b12e1c396d9c1dbb5b95101fe2dabbe424f257ee0903a85b22c1