Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7411ec3f1504d565…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:59:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f4be6333806a6815fb260f8a03ebe347 SHA-1: de0f374e6551b1f18e1765b82fa59a3e308a8df4 SHA-256: 7411ec3f1504d5650396409d2d1ad2942f3ab898f091acea39bc97f3e06962d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, likely to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=resource+pack+map PDF link annotation
    • https://inijariku.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65878033225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0aa735cbb5---94609522218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bb2a0b574---16555051647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ju1up6u21cla7fabeg8o5se3s6/fasimaworijunomutosulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725a50ac299---85422888936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/21568225835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/29114844171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigandtallking.com/userfiles/file/66516136529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740db0efd3d---begozolobunowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/tomude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arredamentigiacobbe.it/file/momar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846d830094b---70738790305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mauspro.net/upload/files/43350395760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2131741809c4e44e7c163ec8a6fba3be/depepotagoxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0454250875---gigedutapogit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop//contents/sotexuwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palletgoanloi.com/img-dn/files/3074894634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t39tcj104obl4uuduop82r9l3n/niwirurosadaperimasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efd2c7990833d7a1aefe1bbb0c605046/doroxinopatebakuvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/gakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.doctor-carpet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ek4dtii75rgi1ggl73go59gjb3/zewolavejekemojemuri.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_off0000e95c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE95C 10432 bytes
SHA-256: acc29dbd3223a93ca0ecb8ecd827615de1c52154a390d1c98f48b3cddeef6264
font_01_sfnt_off0001011b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1011B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001192d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1192D 16604 bytes
SHA-256: a671df4725e43dc48b0f2038420b7d710f25a9ba108e67bf5d915a452f79a6af