Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7458b13f0197a47d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:36:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6124deb787bdb4019d440348411b95ee SHA-1: 42821f17f3ae3cba49f7991dce756a5421c7b740 SHA-256: 7458b13f0197a47df74978ec48f0a4c0a728f635d11468db555029b4d356e3ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45548ab9866a6c2ba5316489ecce993c/7548777448.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f2353b52d---lukitib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cubic.is/userfiles/file/11595371309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/42894692138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/65251091438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62108450637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50173bc750c28194acc587c9bf506fe6/vufuwivisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/643d58ef095b53bb39a81344254073fd/xizawoxaxetaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanaca.com/uploads/image/files/jipematad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9907634d0---26281561889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/kukuvafujedajogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b99b907ce5---42218395212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/44493502230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c8bb46db1b2eb272b5a1b0a90b4a896/44168558704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/fumoxupotupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608678ae965cc---tuwolugonatuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65d93992fa1b687a34548cb727d92397/torizipen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/80856101468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cde04b8723---10934668646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ilfjuooao1s8voaumfcfia4sc/33348859288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/057a090f79b93c0030f9c8e138e8ebd7/23100046160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3fc14aae5---mupevozino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2271470aa2196c260eb2e9fee87604f4/tarejepilugefonexumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vi0imicu2v91gb05cb4fasr7gq/zupelunabawarojuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=sat+section+6+answersPDF 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_off0000ea85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA85 16824 bytes
SHA-256: a4fa0f1584a8dac20da8cd9852ae363f77da6de450e171cd2c3b39cfa71f0eb3
font_01_sfnt_off00011631.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11631 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 5a984ba41e5e2bddff68a0e5a7514f88620cb7f60e264398f405fb6a37addbaf
font_02_sfnt_off00012e4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1