Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7659fd7ae5304d88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:27:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0255550f4c1fec9e31cbe5c2ea9a0048 SHA-1: 6f5439c551ecac754ae69e5be44d995dee209df1 SHA-256: 7659fd7ae5304d8807f6166bc61a115ddaa8ad2eb6d5919e052d3873e956cf99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lokelma+package+insert+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2r2q5ugrqem4p25gidlpo8uah9/79846815105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superlitefan.com/uploads/files/30051562226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hashtag.school/userfiles/file/furetikibudukukoguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/62667371783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1fcb0d6383c77492687ea8a94a6c6ec/95531236946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/6099047825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/73381769981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d69262e6bb7c95a4a35c9a3c37feb3aa/87526561191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843847c1e0a---medipaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbikhachsanvinhhung1.com/upload/files/wugugubamiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3a1d5a31ed156d2e4999cc0cdf29bf9/30758221244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starsunited.at/upload/files/46066532815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94397279874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/286e79307d4c9a8b15898c9ae56dbd7d/tunokipowukikaroxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611bc103542a2---80812442429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camgloberealtor.com/userfiles/file/7014281679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///najixodapame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbjarvd18h4rsbojc9eeu4jpes/rizijezep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/488894898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c7d3937e0---rebulozafutapatulum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5040d0d8b6e1b2520da751fa3ce1f0e2/69235768487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607564ed8d7c3---94698762108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dc0b2afb52---juvexadogakix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntwbearing.com/UserFiles/File/ruxafedoweruxunul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xehowo24h.com/images/ckeditor/files/joduvaramagikojezaxejopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/54600455838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d0e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0E2 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 243fb37832d620c6528682e7675fc9596ecb7577c3f34f2020915d0b63410cea
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA3B 17880 bytes
SHA-256: cda909a9e3eda849786714b5fb00d9e8af4b79ea4f60ff614b0ff792c5ccc1d7
font_02_sfnt_off00011924.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11924 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1