Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7464995527f8cb60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 14:52:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 38c23a52f5b2d3369f2e8c8640d17cf5 SHA-1: 813839d82f36d44210d8391b6cc91df5ac9bf6b9 SHA-256: 7464995527f8cb608a0ac4c4fd1161e4744d6fb216dd615ae35744dfc745917d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs, while some are confirmed benign, are part of a larger pattern of redirecting users to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/76351521602.pdf
    • https://nacionalequipamentos.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/gipuvugokikosuze.pdf
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946f2d96cf7---tukemosanaded.pdf
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8f36d7044---62246465665.pdf
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b958295777fc8eca5a896587d318ce3a/34981438728.pdf
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/7235667879.pdf
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e0ac89ff2ed932a952a8cbf99bab05a/xerafujomuxejimipuduz.pdf
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/muzesakaxetiziwujabupal.pdf
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/newulamigejewalenozaxam.pdf
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/xedivegubawob.pdf
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ajnb9nt5b0ro2iaap1nu1bbkcn/55280158904.pdf
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/28444427596.pdf
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmi1q76spp4dp8smljaqaf1v64/37923489011.pdf
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b64c382c30822829bdb8abb2034033e/84044697695.pdf
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3143fa7d7560f1402427b25a1bd1ba93/gubiropikufifodugo.pdf
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/luzasebat.pdf
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7c6679409---5115311062.pdf
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e501f6c0fc---sepudupogava.pdf
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972ab74574e---97178605700.pdf
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95ef1d1b3b---ranex.pdf
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/59236872521.pdf
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87dulvl3jbe8p934i34cn4p78d/20401302027.pdf
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc08d493dd---ruvizevupimavamitivosa.pdf
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/zederosomakurivedero.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=recipe+card+template+for+pages+free
    • 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_off0000ec52.bin
30995a32ebacd0e6a30f2a6c7da0e4beaafae65792ec4d9236d55cba292879cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC52 10904 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010562.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10562 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d74.bin
e1f32c162293b7dd65a274249a90fe9ff3c841a72877160d1336607fe398fb4f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D74 17108 bytes