Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a0bf7f310313447…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:00:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e483856ce40cea843662324fb4989d36 SHA-1: 01c5190717edbe83e4ee561c8b003f62a6e74bdd SHA-256: 7a0bf7f310313447eaba1876088b42ff7d9e2294fe5e1e3bfd4945a80c3d2806
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. This behavior suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03b3f44ae2f6ba154ff37b7cf2cb5b52/77817140174.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elateridae.com/images/FCKeditor/file/womum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/52554771504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polletnv.be/uploads/files/bofarinedumatepogenitap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-i-f.ru/userfiles/file/rinetutelakifanabonawuriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734bb52416b---tekaxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winfielddeli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/natekotedododij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ea478f8f8---24007207139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otc923020sh8uoplcdkk7tl75t/renupuxuroxigozudiseref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlato-invest.cz/upload/files/77030214926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodlander.sk/grafika/file/43669228455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiophotosfashion.it/userfiles/files/zovatibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823d387e8d8---42566973291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://preciseenergygroup.com/media/fibovuwofif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f07n9v54vhq2l513mjlq5hlfq/86992273957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/74828829051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harrisonsfamilyreunion.com/clients/62911/File/38119793681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da48f091b45---kugirixaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76d9dc70d7ef7b440b3e26a59a28f7d8/fakedonimegekugafaluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/59179442327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881ec275491---83079288950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/38887583303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98f3f58f5cb60a0f42bc277f89ef27b3/jadisofupiwexavakewerix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/zugotarulowumerezirigesag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=recommendation+letter+sample+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off000115b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115B9 18240 bytes
SHA-256: d0d56f4f3a25a1481d9a6af05e6dcd69bade37ff4dfe024d9a56197530f68419
font_01_sfnt_off00014519.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14519 10824 bytes
SHA-256: ce3a7cebb7f96964b8b48f5b08b0c0f561c2873d8e48921fe5addbe3c17b739a
font_02_sfnt_off00015e06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1