Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7941b9b198bb4514…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 12:17:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 75fdc28f9a20b868caeb71149ad8c56c SHA-1: 6ea898cf594e684cd3a96d288ba06ea2e81d9f19 SHA-256: 7941b9b198bb45143817616adc5ebb37b2882101c71d24fa3cf75f113a516de6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hematuria+after+catheter+removal PDF link annotation
    • https://ssvacancy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/seleji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5b45ce92f43156832ddaa3dcd813355/falikowimugejiwizuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/306d83f6b0df077dc8b54a45c4d02fae/zufekedosijaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608235acbfaf9---vovivize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0326768e0318c86e9ae6645f54936e17/gimatukopikunumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081794757e50---11014904626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae06d7ebeaa---gewivutonikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d99be66c82---wukezafolisusewasidulasan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd2a05155f8682642c806ad9a31025b1/vifubebajixobudov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073af89c145e---segufudegifuwojiwopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef78402409---4606201822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/midukewoxaguzawipam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mqplp5hk2pugf3jt940o4u9ea0/takerujupuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/27827618122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toddfamilyreunion.com/clients/4/48/482e924d5a052aa4a0c13eb8a30e0bc8/File/fajojarajedezokekajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/71793066187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/14297767638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35ff4f71460d6e89d6ba0a3cd38d507a/kobejuripababefisarikof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungthanhauto.com/luutru/files/fijejexobuxazodufududib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607188fb0a28f---sobabuwerawuravaxotumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96e75e7a2d4239bccdcf2b9e0b015202/74038051630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semineebrasov.ro/printuri-fi/files/ronavere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608384844ce45---zotazonimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-affaires.com/img/pics/files/59703383399.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_off0000e88b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE88B 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 4f0220207e8c8c81e83a6f8cf1648b56e1dba67904efe8dd484725ccc5e0c4e4
font_01_sfnt_off0001005d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1005D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001186f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1186F 17108 bytes
SHA-256: 272a11ff2c407693e1e5c47955340531e2054a55d260ebd72b76f9dede391c6c