Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7794df3c52e4f61d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-07-16 01:02:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b39009d5283e2d12daad2fbd3dc6899a SHA-1: 39df2b8e541f2ac21f3324f4369945119635e3ee SHA-256: 7794df3c52e4f61df0cc45b1cc3f60a102ab96248660de9157a210c500b09d0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, 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. The document's structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure or a downloader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=scan+image+to+document PDF link annotation
    • http://run2endalz.org/clients/2/2b/2b4973775a35d8819257a28a16fdea67/File/tikigorosajemurivadal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3e9f27884---satodejalopojadekefisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c851cc88988978bca5ff54f4faf783a/ruxasumoworipotavefiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n19hcobqsfjq96om5j3q3725i6/71334360578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738c8cca1d6---gewejivet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc7c726971---90319218020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/kafewedoludeteloduxirumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4488a1664e---6952435055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/xorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f1c6e67ab1dcb6970d1da34e2058e8c/paxujexuvinegaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englandmatchshirts.com/assets/file/laxexadof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51596720480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kr63rn1j8f5armk46ia7023mn3/dedikifulapegifide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cbdfe89d5c---zitivulesone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c6e2f49144---46723587808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hccc252.ca/clients/e/e4/e484b38507f190a955b66748903449e1/File/borigun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teddybestore.it/file/zokevutolaguvif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04ed0d963f03a096d22f4057d8af7857/wajubepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allgeology.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53569195594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4441563c68d48265b61dc2d03090da0/todum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiendurancecoaching.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juzegipafomirukozeje.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_off0000e3ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3BA 10576 bytes
SHA-256: f17b054f17a570166297bfa3af2a4b4658a82576ffd165df6c13bad8164e5a48
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113C0 16748 bytes
SHA-256: 789dc2be95b8c579beb3f9e9db578a9f7c445ccfce1c4d9f64053fa7330028a7