Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7414812063ef45f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 14:09:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fc8e6a36f509a17ac80b4dae8dd0d77d SHA-1: 0347cc06015e4314b8cf9af46ff7265e818bd66c SHA-256: 7414812063ef45f54e090628be543edb16a1b90956f1d64593b7abd79c968893
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not fully detailed, indicates potential for further malicious actions like downloading second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+materialismo+dialectico PDF link annotation
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210828212255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rubonipubogidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v55ode957v4lble5cbtlt4etoi/10624518095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89fb8189b9d193a46627bce807714956/42790264105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd24a6ce3b---jeruteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.area-tlc.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nexirozupazagos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0bnjlk0l9t2ljo2tupl2a18k4/getumodabuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/talagavefelotarivogoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/60455820065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62eef5e1b4a01ad5e42535d8792cee78/58950200127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf8f40dcfa---puvagepodotupebadopumexiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekuangudomthara.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41480678340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/keduwefabape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fgq7cisb1d20893iaacegdit5l/nifufujunijegefimamerelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topaldanang.com/uploads/image/files/jevevofajibewepodigibof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiotovn.com/Images_upload/files/totavewiriwopilozimesivas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pieseautocomenzi.ro/userfiles/file/kovimozixirumus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smsenerji.com/resimler/files/2512483923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/8378583025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f231cdc49b6e0b0d019a1b6472808219/44835882675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/78494755930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609137fee3723---9967031805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608914582069a---67619580860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021061404512773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15525475353.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_off0000e0d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0D8 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 9bf31a1202f29651153a4c34aca1e8c894999859bdb7b84b7bcd5f150a7f7e42
font_01_sfnt_off00010da4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125BB 10532 bytes
SHA-256: d08dc3ed673187df12e12d42e4502c57d7525a3847b2316666e2169e5b9052ec