Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a179af227740ece…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-08-10 14:01:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 17c3e21381d26403fdb5730f2fd21a93 SHA-1: 93ca3507ee595f844a83c49dd39792eea052d809 SHA-256: 7a179af227740ece11a8efe657fef0d7b8c1d25fd4beb59430f2d5bf43fc25a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure suggest it may leverage embedded JavaScript or exploit PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sample+letter+of+undertaking+to+be+of+good+behaviour PDF link annotation
    • http://keigan-productions.com/clients/863431/File/bezuzatiliza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607116dc74eca---jisolezibeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/sifadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/mozalegize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxfordjsr.com/userfiles/file/56885010734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southport1969.com/clients/861680/File/xororitizimogozobejonit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b42189b04734cd21318055c13869d63/91625602446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39120772627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/34986536223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/igi0qeo4usseek2sq6f8chp3r0/xisibegudevupetida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210701_120B706E23D4A4AF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xukuralazebemodokolofom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpollopaulino.com/cenavarra_userfiles/files/mefuzoligitovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/8292246248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/zowiturepazezilopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4de80efaebae14c5b3287f45a3c0bd6d/dufekaverutufesop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/riwuloxedovizonigegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whalesart.com/uploadfile/file///2021070118035225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f481e31804ca6fa9af3142fb0226abc/juzun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealand-pptc.com/userfiles/file/tirowipikatuwuman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiokuda1.com/contents//files/ritojemi.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_off0000eecf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEECF 11248 bytes
SHA-256: fb73953e03c886728c8fd5dd1d7bb87237abd484719dc46f50066a9b8daf097f
font_01_sfnt_off0001088b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1088B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001209d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1209D 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 963e7b7dba5ea89246b776f47102fa540726c9a99235d247daa0b81350fe82de