Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a078b552465d3dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 18:10:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 9b9a53e4b14c331fe4ef78016b55c471 SHA-1: 5fcfb2cf82d73cc6cef4b5ba7f2f6ba32107e1b6 SHA-256: 7a078b552465d3dcd5a89bde3b8941230ee62380eac9c3bdba50c86e7f7779b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=preview+to+word+converter PDF link annotation
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4671b5281---zukum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msamerica.net/clients/873634/File/wesijumanesepel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093031c9b3b9---bipawute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6cf2ff3f264bcd3a31875247200d133/zifujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/kemizonirurexumovimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31fue70llcbntr85n7ha8pedjp/87442626567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7db7aaf960---31247907066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgpropertylawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e9521902c7e0d12d93a845aac090b23/72753376033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97d2592a938a4e7f4f5ad103ae9edd65/1225255648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/16815511807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobsai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/witizix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c064e561a42---loligatawuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5614428a5f---53104377206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bf7840643---jezujovabivunuwovup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67be7cd3ba16130148266806c51b99ce/53319376051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/92869364888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiabiru.com/contents//files/56674747735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090cdebe01de---19449844793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vdatac2qvtf150ktk6vbsf2cub/23148300695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eqfbg3gvlgd6oknvnev62n3d3/bilefidofaguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/99179864785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5ad5dab60---74090261555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb0fa58031c---36805095729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/97666883616.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_off0000d331.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD331 10140 bytes
SHA-256: 0a46dd5118df29da24e2fb8de1c25a85db5b50b1cfe180bec7d354239e8767b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F8 17044 bytes
SHA-256: 31380f168062ca7a438d65db514acd472121f41f0f9f8fa2ce02438480dbe16b
font_02_sfnt_off00011645.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11645 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1