Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7455fb7af85d4b4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 19:09:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: eddf5d3cf6aff537297637893b33487b SHA-1: 38df818e15cf2c38d22d06019be2d618524710da SHA-256: 7455fb7af85d4b4f43b06496f1b5b2a3a9ff8336e7644d861bb382786469b4df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dialer+ios12+style PDF link annotation
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/file/tekutawizalijubod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e9841fa34---73422064565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukwoodrecycling.com/userfiles/files/zobusawizaliwesago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngnjl.com/userfiles/files/xarimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokeocncafe.com/uploads/files/ximisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novo-foto.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vaxizuvimasafoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-sinpro.com/upload/files/veliku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/47018200949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakedua.com/contents/files/41689559179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaimano.it/file/80565480181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613944bb4fa39---tibas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/37728731394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npk-bypassdrr2.com/file_media/file_image/file/kinapapawonogikekufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/jawolafibev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuk-amro.de/userfiles/file/64746216957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdesign.de/userContent/files/20210906005936-44888537944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duragloss.pl/userfiles/file/30990617126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39m09q2tose7l3i2q2bh43clcc/fugologukebep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rudnmrb09tgphihj59e76n0sh4/nizefupuribelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smpnuenen.nl/images/files/69218217465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ed836787cb---nopidulogubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2007a13d9791ce2d06e9d04149976d1b/jorela.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_off0000b9cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1DF 17244 bytes
SHA-256: 644e1337e1d29c42d5529a7b3a21498b31649cd8e23e5f51333ed04a7aec089d
font_02_sfnt_off0000fecd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFECD 10284 bytes
SHA-256: 7c48f3846ab2436c6744211fa4ed6a1fbac4711a989b2b9d31479f8953dacde8