Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7456951eb2a4e26d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 01:16:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: d500e27a9879c4137e4b2c771acbcdb8 SHA-1: cbab7bb19a79ce154c57030e475548fcc5c36d94 SHA-256: 7456951eb2a4e26d00b9f3a08ac30be39db5103c438d900af454bd2955c27553
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable or compromised domains. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the true malicious destination by distributing links across many domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://mardeestilos.es/fotos/file/46517881849.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cathugo-yachts.de/res/wysiwyg/file/patibazifomup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613685a29d5be---78503081217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fde1bbcglrgah17568ef4s5tk/guziri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happyfun.tw/uploads/files/202109071234371667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bazeramojutexexizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613219e550832---78521017701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovad-ltd.com/userfiles/file/80872515782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunian-co.com/other_files/File/lulidiporafijaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mai-avto.ru/upload_files/file/94730718698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392ec176aab---sagukejosabeminitino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139302d62418---28359090190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cungcapbaoduongcuanhatban.com/upload/files/11122000339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goacetours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sikuxugajuximobitiwupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annassteen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vezefuzufafukudugofot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136900f9fc03---67678624360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oomewatersport.nl/upload/files/tadowezipimemutewowazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://combatkuntao.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tobabales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulgariapools.com/contents/files/24216363636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okzawidow.pl/img/upload/files/38833143144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/65147447142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/wudiwezegizilepimisajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1768594c38c920c5a4243ff62c74f82f/kugibaluxobujezaxafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexprikson.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/tuzomelomorugejatuzewivaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dampinggame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/38351981632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=find+my+android+phonePDF 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_off0000eca0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA0 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 62e703fbcacf8ac5e588b7989249d240e6ffad3c05a8cf0aa44204a92f9631bf
font_01_sfnt_off000103fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C10 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 3153a1ac38420e489492850ded0e87d9377415cc6bd6b10a8ee2a5d17638af81