Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a1826acf7cfd2e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-07-06 15:13:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 486c2369ba7005987a91b173d23fbfee SHA-1: 1813f6cfaf07aa4c9a68f1144726fa25e6d7a387 SHA-256: 7a1826acf7cfd2e4ce8ff7d9281d7d4c80f7c072d2415b678fd312621aeecbf9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating its primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=report+sheet+lab+10+chemical+reactions+and+equations+answers
    • http://sambometal.com/dataroom/file/55243227989.pdf
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7c54efe91---purego.pdf
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/193d6c3edb253edddc9a8c34ef9ecbdd/65329490149.pdf
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/18691960488.pdf
    • https://stijsr.com/userfiles/file/dunarofipubi.pdf
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9615a3b6afcbf04088c9647ed8559047/tisosi.pdf
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/703404445bf4474c30e84004e7714504/72794985667.pdf
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92d773860e---15208510658.pdf
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e056b09a9c---suwinunoliru.pdf
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/as5nrogp1bo9hb5nnrbcqo3d8r/nijiwiz.pdf
    • http://minuspk.ru/minuspk.ru/userfiles/file/49545149960.pdf
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29fd3ddb7e---150275073.pdf
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8m7adhdrsduna2mhdfgog9e8h/69922982052.pdf
    • http://bogieclassof67.com/clients/71235/File/dujoz.pdf
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1d5a03fac---bobekovumunej.pdf
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfirg2dqp1fddg363rib2om3lj/pafowiwezomajodamifekume.pdf
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ed195fde1---10959722731.pdf
    • http://ellerbeefamilyreunion.com/clients/874543/File/sirivefuliloli.pdf
    • https://koratspring.com/upload/file/bemana.pdf
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac36082c2d7---16211114883.pdf
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/83387949494.pdf
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5333a2732d---zewatebavekimujogojamolul.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c962.bin
d3e619d1cb06cc12fb46fab53ed4a1e9947473b3e9b281339d91ba6f2ad9e4bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC962 11468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3ef.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3EF 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc01.bin
53c9eedec253c06ae3df963ae3ef10b2e22e9210fd2b3f23c357f13ef094a9af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC01 17892 bytes