Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a0fa2e34fbc0763…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-14 06:24:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3661771735cf3467f005f0096d12cd63 SHA-1: 6c0cc43bd8831b483461c830a0387cce06ab1251 SHA-256: 7a0fa2e34fbc07637b940019e2a744468a2e78b1f39fd080bc94868eb02cde5d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports the malicious intent of directing users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ssmavidiyar.com/public/content-images/files/77719019474.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/pinajigaguvawosesusijiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liavanhaeringen.nl/userfiles/files/kexipema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134dd2b2f2bd---15585967762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vezikivolelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161380e95e5161---wumiwazolarodulugeweges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2614de201d0ee5119e19a49f5e0740bc/pupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zd-zeta.com/uploads/files/202109071830375506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dopuskvsro.ru/UserFiles/71118775832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kantipursecurity.com/userfiles/file/70801973963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radyoislam.com/resimler/files/zozidipiparelizinapem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i0dlcrn59vhqgrbems3bhldjb5/lujaserosamuwokudemim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tcf.gov.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73405883249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/97105854729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobibon.com/admin/userfiles/file/48010738091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackinthegymtpe.com/uploads/files/202109060449312262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a0131c7002---minusedubegejitezarem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4218713862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsegypt.com/file/kitufudipiwezulofojev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/70415836912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stgeorgedentalcare.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bumemavurodarokimezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smalternatywa.pl/media/upload/files/671aa0e1a809618587652fb5c7a010e3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332674ca3f3---zojef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardennes.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50413381964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=the+vampire+diaries+comic+book+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_off0000dfcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFCB 17368 bytes
SHA-256: 0ac67cccdf37a7d5dabe058d36d30ef1447d98443d71ee08d521e7cbe6b32ce2
font_01_sfnt_off00010d11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D11 10900 bytes
SHA-256: c2bc80c2e72b53e86bcee294b5fbd62575f610a8f255999554dc95ff7e8a9455
font_02_sfnt_off00012615.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12615 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1