Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7310d0588a579e66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:50:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cf2e3b5b293d94806ed7b698e4a5400e SHA-1: 2c8f84ae5beb8711cfe7ea0c43e64ffa7ca287d3 SHA-256: 7310d0588a579e66368c2b9f485cff6a31046029b5e34a8fb25370ae9932fbb4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, indicating an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings and numerous URLs are sufficient evidence.

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=central+intercept+x+advanced+for+server+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://motorlustor.net/userfiles/file/mogosomajipodexigobafuluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2eda3b0586---24409113526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afc389ca9a4a62cec3c94ec812addabf/xozorepapiviju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f26228b3787---65041937386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8a58a8806888b493258de8f65771d69/74070185629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/08/file/202108121941558372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dq36jlh9p7mencr06n7k66all/silubavefijanasemeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc1643494d---37489637193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compsult.net/userfiles/file/rawifuxikokoneveterekebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///2021070312151_1032106692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/57247723050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a921c4cc29a---10360467479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608782d88d4e2---35158852199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3902530913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machinex-machines.com/UserFiles/File/japovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c42e1f432---59410887520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ags-car.com/upload/files/92185687085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46f1ea7d43---mevajebinedulige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heydarbaba.org/resimler/files/fojawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098305116685---wowagivex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c4bb1b112---viweni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a90624f5d4---70562954085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pua461sp11udukmiuo1ust4rc1/xokajudazodivudukejotim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gunjumginj469ck0jshrdk79fg/68892768042.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_off0000de2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE2A 19444 bytes
SHA-256: a79c0448b0113d57c762127660e549fd44306dd79986c853929eec5e0f602f16
font_01_sfnt_off0001105c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1105C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012873.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12873 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 978dd631d6dab1376d44e4fc0068bef96551bd10411017de29980a0ff97f9d49