Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7386009e0ef224a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 09:53:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 54f85e42a3dceb9f6ba0abdbd0c52cda SHA-1: 824561b55b7c178927a68144fb48750c0cccf2f5 SHA-256: 7386009e0ef224a863399343c3465727b8784b3ee753ce496c2f34937d7dd2f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings strongly suggest a malicious link aggregation strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://e-hematologica.pl/users//file/mokonewuvimilakixirosa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097e9632f504---41779117943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b70acdb5eab68b3119010fb8cd8d2b0/kubedixefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf84e5325b---somebafusiwarugojowip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/99107051149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/29891372102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/sidusapufikajix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c5bd7e953f10be2aae85a8a20a4646f/werifurututunebit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/zubivotufejebinafev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/kobewetamawinuxase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f4a0055da9aab7158562ac68d3778d7/63103389409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j999p49jphaop7qbh09oakfnr6/88057163585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b6af30601---samibejavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8c9c98bea---87473222192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/71462383521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dda8fa1cf5c450abb1c741114b12ebbd/gapiruninufubova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1072212d9---88831243988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masukpt1.com/contents//files/jinaluluxubiviwezete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e81e70600---4859194096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8bb31bf443---bexamasapadipulimagutig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/faxenivemuzuzegonagivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3e3c89fd72e8b96b11d5cdc072a96bc/jaluxavubizivokigugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2efab40ec1---buwipodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourownadviser.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44523390369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=abs+rope+pulldownPDF 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_off00010551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10551 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 45070535936cfefed45217e57eb96f57ef273088bc6a5093dde60e80c6005e17
font_01_sfnt_off00011c94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C94 16888 bytes
SHA-256: 8b172f1b1fdbf78e9bcbd7d4ed81f9d2b9ea2dff1c460c61a2c607c6185395b6
font_02_sfnt_off00014883.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14883 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1