Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7401a428a224bc7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 10:03:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3522c3934cc88c9fc3a73337b0d9d9f7 SHA-1: 60af188f5563cf1b665057cc1e533cf2b725f801 SHA-256: 7401a428a224bc7f338744c185f8835a57f3c7d02e8a78b3a93a38b9d3fa9eb0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content. The presence of a QR code lure heuristic further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e47fadc78da70d8b97c072358b55fb2/14081891217.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906012141151997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3bddf16c5beed9140f27f3c24dfee4f/sosuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb1694efc1---mijikanomokipedokefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patidarpalanpur.com/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nafufugasizadisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrievers.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bemumuxamixipinuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meetburgerusa.com/uploads/files/zojezikew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeware-software-download.de/uploads/editor/file/kotozedupipalowose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cfac499c88---bonanenodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecableapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/modejebopuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungtdc.com/upload/files/75924247663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://change4best.ru/upload/file/99050737140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/bufatesit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abarappresentanze.it/userfiles/files/pozizereleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142cf896a07a---zapober.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aifimm.it/admin/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66803164098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2478ef680f0e48e554ead7c42123da06/bubelivuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapsda.org/SapmaUserfiles/file/dapubelevelixikabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateliersmq.com/pevron/www/img/file/13084356484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertwestlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/41034968417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymvii.com/admin/upload/files/jiziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136248b9e7ae---fupinagubufurujofibemega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+read+qr+code+from+photo+iphonePDF 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_off0000bc18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC18 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d42a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD42A 16428 bytes
SHA-256: 326b4a6d64eab2a8c401aadf9d68dfad57afc9f8536c027b8d337054fd7ac236
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE3B 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 0710337a78bcf71140fca498fd233aa45fa9b65b60a032686e9788fb40e7d692