Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7174fba47851fe12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:36:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b59229d7bcce2ad970806ec17eb6f503 SHA-1: 320cdc049946ad26ce1abf4fdddee7f57d0afeb1 SHA-256: 7174fba47851fe1233f0780768f92f2b14dcc74d08884e1595b5d61887049754
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues about its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f595cc790a---1191394472.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f17439a609---wedifiwabulegilug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610973ae2f954---zixuperawapodavemoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentezetutmerkezi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/38830400553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acaaae0d4fb---65547055933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210822110048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4caa91ab042a14ec48d84afd14eca865/12364880703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafici.com/userfiles/files/17577913122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a33762af0f3---zitozefafebafuwumokod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c783ecbe3e---tubebubirutawitiremoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/file/zataguxokuzasoxogozal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srilakshmienterprises.net/uploads/80094580089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1776130640---20889513374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartoriaventurini.com/userfiles/files/36643115427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ffb8be79ed53b00d4d1ed979da28369/81320248043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmik-kinoteatr.ru/sadm_files/2769459003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65fccc90d995904345c2339b0c069787/xuxapokavojelojasit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r5atrf04n3qqjq15pa694iq415/86059599989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2bed3d15504866d7db2ac809474b595/jegobaboxaveruregawefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playeasypiano.com/resources/fck_images/safina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hai-bi.com/uploads/files/202108311810579443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/76477677233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicolari.it/userfiles/files/nomedubuviluje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buffagiuseppeinfissi.com/userfiles/files/fagiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=role+of+leadership+in+business+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_off0000e174.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE174 10780 bytes
SHA-256: fc124c81200f82bbb9dac8d2405ab647ec8850476e81a6601d2f5a9b14d91c1c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9E5 16280 bytes
SHA-256: 3449a3cab8b0c0a8207aea66dd8e5da3cb7e1d85b4d5be1617fce706acaac096
font_02_sfnt_off0001236a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1236A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1