Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7849b18ac6c5cfc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 11:14:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 54a46863e5d35e0276c65336b697e006 SHA-1: 677afef078b4988521a911d241fbf192599806cb SHA-256: 7849b18ac6c5cfc7bb4bad4159cf9a59307c955641953ea7e7c5948a54ddd59e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or harvest credentials. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=uterus+recovery+after+c+section PDF link annotation
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c10a52381e1---lotetuwovutesidawenugefif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/vexivosulipuwikasenozefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miraesusan.com/ckupload/files/56722134059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c873814203c---kegimawetomakewexatasokul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c248ca3f9---51092923087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a469b453c2b---zodijixesojoginefuzebive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93e7c1e203f4c8a3ca2445e09000f383/93769586380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2smpl3garpfkgbb3n5mgc85fs/bilomazelarufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/40154011588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/295095df398deb1c0f5b40f6689d536e/nokiwabebotetowuwitima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49f42080d9---93946803406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenhuy.vn/upload/files/17244766225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hobbstownis100.com/clients/6/66/66141d04a4341350d76ae3a38785cb5a/File/puraparodojudekomoxonamig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5a52dd42c---pazozolokedabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/subabuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cc557792e---naxoluzepuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c6a37b27e---befalonavivoginu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://666666.vn/upload/fck/file/garulotapumaxofanofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46166414154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edd8dd67d68c67576c02223a17956637/44077170650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/belabowaremipotuvokifosal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c118f90a620---89287283345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/95122719221.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_off0000fa32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA32 18120 bytes
SHA-256: cda9113e548f608cb3369d161e5b447ac53a0925c6334b93fbd9a12a98aaf025
font_01_sfnt_off000128b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128B7 10572 bytes
SHA-256: e2896dfdfea7c34f754d69bc176567683d1e68a1a479415091f2eb7f85a2daab
font_02_sfnt_off00014110.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14110 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1