Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7141459f8c5b2e71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 04:58:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 32510fb6b1efe3f82b0c45ea80ed070f SHA-1: d472e90334122af7344ba67f467a05a670964816 SHA-256: 7141459f8c5b2e714ce9ae5e40ea8e1d0bf1cea0c3e9bf3b292866991e825685
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs indicates a potential phishing or SEO manipulation tactic.

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=malena+full+movie+download PDF link annotation
    • https://hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/namidurowori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelseafarm.com/kweb/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58010898436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deleeuwputten.nl/site/data/ws/files/leterusugunoteke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rilur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silverspringabw.com/uploads/files/wigojixeziruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/libekuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/43899983577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiciliani.eu/userfiles/files/sagubune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upnbkk.com/file_media/file_image/file/82805499012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lodoshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/21625179858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmalayalamnews.com/userfiles/file/9371595137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161373ed02258a---gozoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f451ace805---xatowenabokibibuzefaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayersoffice.com/userfiles/file/93825897673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sloepverhuur-debiesbosch.nl/upload/files/10043190402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--38-mlcqjbufcz6h.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/bagababumewati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyitotthetvege.kastelyszallodak.hu/userfiles/files/dupuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaas.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/87840567626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grnca.org/img/files/files/meputenido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1rloa1e7d1kmv23c12t6jpiv9l/39300357938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/64217913032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.com/contents/files/55613080411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnumprint.ru/upload/files/kononubenigegup.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_off0000e586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE586 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD9D 10392 bytes
SHA-256: f2604d858323ff3fd7c7b5fac487b2e450e2b9d8c9c1a7a8e29bf71e7daff012
font_02_sfnt_off00011516.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11516 18084 bytes
SHA-256: d02ae7316799e78eacdc85204d76c0bc022289cfea780e04bb881aa61ab9e80d