Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7384a384d1996a19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

127.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 19:36:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6eba970ed3519ea76276998e09bb4a41 SHA-1: 34739a865bcd9ae2e44fc948dfecc265cd39c9fd SHA-256: 7384a384d1996a195276cb3e150145dc8e91b53c1b433d98e172d0ac531d84c0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sentence+completion+therapy+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0403f197fb---jirexubixifinem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3cf6722ab7---sanovoloraxabakumunige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/41235084295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alteanetworks.fr/img/file/20914377624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6b1994d28---63598469659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/13126095984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160931bfe8910a---28060512177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aydin-elektrik.com/resimler/files/63690672189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahsmarinesurveyors.ca/userfiles/file/75690904014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purifoy2020.com/clients/1/11/118d8b7ee1ea4bab8fb19da95c56260f/File/zikizazevutoxadosevukit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cec0db547dead70f6a885558b065a474/jaxawipazixosinonowebexep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3d162a6b6---74781952017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel.com/contents//files/82527023325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd6bee8505---vedemomatudalepizodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/402ea80a4f22de4b2d13542bd90d2192/5400394184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e877b33f7418c6e29a961e49fd2030a/kupuzekox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/pobab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ebc6c108b3---57479685812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/58032055198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab7d7b750168dce3f8311a804f569bf1/jerezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e378cbb36a---16216042159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02baccd1ed---kafoxojet.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_off000190d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x190D5 17712 bytes
SHA-256: d5e3f505d2d13e85e8f4b779b2f5579bd3b472af016d29c12d37f0a334df9cb4
font_01_sfnt_off0001bece.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BECE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001d6e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D6E5 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 4a6045a9df1c2d305d406f901a7d47d24ad25cba80670d0a9455fa6856e54712