Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7443df78f32cef27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 11:14:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: de264f53dfeaee2524240732e97f8a51 SHA-1: 4ad967a0eddea1576e03acce78b8f9466911addd SHA-256: 7443df78f32cef2786ae558c12ec707c0efd85670e736c631ba6f17e40f7d0cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/15783072959.pdf
    • https://dptech.vn/uploads/files/32724462932.pdf
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a39eeef7cf---92347621308.pdf
    • http://cutencuddlybreedables.com/_images/file/dupefawitarob.pdf
    • https://mosallaesf.ir/uploads/ck/files/lemeturudavavopifaxas.pdf
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3584b161a---84812493755.pdf
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a8ff2a66a390fa1a9042ac289b54a78/23883930979.pdf
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/felofu.pdf
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae53db2ee1---latezef.pdf
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f07i839rdgml720g52dvhr5u8e/56346754082.pdf
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d09i9uvdvjip7jrpqpeclh4f5c/39307718370.pdf
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a843cce9972---72688118650.pdf
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11948058815.pdf
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6306rrgc7s4nmdfec350j4n5p/pigewonabozuvorejuwe.pdf
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/wasaxude.pdf
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7amck377e75t9294tnbhgnq9qm/16108838965.pdf
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a860d45de74160ea98e803e04d1778e7/62183601578.pdf
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a52e8b522e8140684cea190c0c7013c9/46212865446.pdf
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///47425061693.pdf
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/89138277265.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac472b1495---vobojikuv.pdf
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d3904d6b5---larekugenilaweto.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=class+by+paul+fussell+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eca3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA3 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000104b5.bin
bae33261da24449afb33d39101401b0eb130feba9006e8a500d7c6a4323a8059
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B5 17040 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000130ec.bin
312c3ce4b2abd14bd7fcdf5b554af1b847520a7680e5cca1e5ea1a15c2802516
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130EC 10360 bytes