Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7487599f4fd4d3fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-08-29 17:09:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0ebe48fbc8f024ebdfdbed9385ea91b7 SHA-1: c3975b2305eb3f426d43d1bd596bf9b7970bb5af SHA-256: 7487599f4fd4d3fe7d4622ce6a4128ce3deb77000b028947b11a6ee3c2f65d67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://kurdumovldpr.ru/uploads/files/27414705381.pdf
    • http://flemingfamilies.org/clients/8/8a/8af36a28baf44bfc7b8a7004fb4eaede/File/bolenigox.pdf
    • https://qnzar.com/files/16676728854.pdf
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/693394415.pdf
    • http://oaklandscreche.ie/userfiles/files/wedevajegelidadirutebev.pdf
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c25ce3dcd1---18819676028.pdf
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/budotodali.pdf
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/98030683675.pdf
    • http://kennycojewelry.com/userfiles/files/202106/1624140501.pdf
    • http://denda.co.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25907401900.pdf
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b69836fbc6---zatadekigezod.pdf
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/sazibanurasozenofavilonoj.pdf
    • http://canxetaidientu.com/images/file/37835346943.pdf
    • http://trieuduong.com/images/Download/90186818796.pdf
    • http://xn--42-jlclgg6a3e.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/zibabo.pdf
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87146187559.pdf
    • https://gitteszoneklinik.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5816913706.pdf
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/07/19/file/20210719_161206_200.pdf
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b29d05de009d97e1d7fffeac0f7c4915/56600480876.pdf
    • http://interreg-ipa-husrb.com/downloads/wugemaxon.pdf
    • http://www.asap-recruitment.net/upload/file/gilotojufevopa.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767337e2f6c---27722326851.pdf
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5119ec1b89---40614237926.pdf
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608084d4e7296---kutazusapemabazesu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=ssis+ssas+ssrs
    • 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_off0000d62f.bin
afd2cd4c4bab384df2f0571d3518f94178b9721f04d0696584c743a024f3419b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD62F 16840 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010199.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10199 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000119af.bin
865d9d11a639c16f51099bb74ec000c3b0f82c9ec6132e791a234e99ad431998
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119AF 9676 bytes