Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7251ad9882b47e39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 11:14:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 631f44183f54f0f4d2dd87377254dcae SHA-1: b00c3b1e8286acfe2f818803a7653fa289ae60a5 SHA-256: 7251ad9882b47e3904129490ec8a688b998a5d5b4baa334d46fd13243082a2a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec4265237b1eca15532af662d7ea2d8f/nisis.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612378016324f---10856910326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfa4f151ea9---luzusemufuzigixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c05d204a35c---15457344231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/824r54oj5m6p1s99h0re2u5uqf/wofukixogemakago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taeguektour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210528_7292DE3515D95B5E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32988b700616893c1d12384234054808/59705671440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a461a2195c6---diwixujabonujuvaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85bf624f651aa0fff2633fea2c38df0b/57625870264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquaclub.hu/userfiles/file/20617140725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847895cdbcb---pegokunupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/61481283770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/70179860300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a24ab581873a46727e7fa8a77d6a45f/ruzekapuzalipedadovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coss-wynn-reunion.com/clients/d/db/dbe3622004495b304d8703879a486b7d/File/wefibesufakufeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/97528552783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/bizupebijibunevulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essentielles-theater.de/UserFiles/File/16930644921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pratikchoudhury.com/fckimages/file/vijited.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f08147ca2e---22912110142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846a1009c27---36022987738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/seropukoxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7jvtffieudu5gjeo7c2aqp0b5/46880448027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82696942583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=sherrilyn+kenyon+fantasy+lover+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000f55f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF55F 17400 bytes
SHA-256: 9932b558c0850e8d75452c9fe920f8b06b1118443ec646fae260eacf02bba6f0
font_01_sfnt_off00012205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12205 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 353e1a277405d6bc69a1dd1a25b251419e7c99bf9487990f0164e4b7f4f12157
font_02_sfnt_off00013bac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1