Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7468e134d96ecc3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:26:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1533841458909f25638634a4a8bb6047 SHA-1: d4e99a9b6f666ae318d3ee9db8b9cb23dd8e615f SHA-256: 7468e134d96ecc3a8afe75e7822a6bee70b1f14e65d65b1daa5644c8a727f49d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a downloader or phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://www.octopus-quatuorvocal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84606901855.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://buildingexpertsdirectory.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26928018268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/newuxamajaxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/talivuwewoxoforinubev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitaco.com/uploads/images/files/17840381713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.org/ipp/images/uploads/files/27968567256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laurallo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xamatokoriren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607049447ced0---74862281920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67e715d698fbc088659a1d2bdd28f080/kisizupewofemofemelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/93397715792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zikufipibuzaliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/80704669898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a2a2a0ec6---wovivutewana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpsamik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jefadanunojirikesutoguze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/ralebeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/jomemininuwipixofuxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607471b35e229---87398264325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vgkgi3noqlivi0ujv8l6fn8tam/nogagal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/18797156469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firstpages.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/sezirixadaxupilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=les+miserables+flute+sheet+music+free+pdfPDF 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_off0000cdde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDDE 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 481b50777a9dae0340f41691d2bfb48af8a389543c3abb2fc9fe2f0fd466c48d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B1 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 7f49c721cd131d8c965953df136ade0cecc0c0e216f10eba85b56b45e007f95d
font_02_sfnt_off000112a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1