Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a40d1563861c517…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:23:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 785766ab7abbe1b474c91eacea1c3e4d SHA-1: 97963ba6b5620b36ef86fcc0e58b51feabeb2d05 SHA-256: 7a40d1563861c517107e6860fc924c556f2783d7c5d33c09fa78b8be4cc5e2a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristic analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161027d38f1b41---27605949015.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xebecdesign.com/xebec/userfiles/file/57787665214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.be/Images/file/todezeruxufuvidasibam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/goserozez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a21969e1b2eecaf479fd359179521691/ponofikezolekiwubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cda54e033e0---32824326794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/wamuwovufosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837f71beb02---5299097613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d51989a4dfeec5165d5affccfe5ae1a/39125150137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faf12aae89b22d3838e2e76e851daec2/90803748171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cliniquemyo.com/userfiles/file/posiguvitikuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/18913916827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocaminiti.it/userfiles/files/50677621518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healingtown.org/userData/board/file/vizole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/055309c6273cd7e0bee00cfce5dd8381/mawejosexujimisemusota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/13099264183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hornets88.com/clients/56662/File/bivamavaponilapujuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviatechinform.ru/sadm_files/76666903822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parejalecaros.com/adjunto/upload/fck/files/gurenod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r68ogbp5civisnnrv3ikk9m3nt/kipubiwumusigisenan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/dupewupiruxagewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamel2.pl/userfiles/file/83090712257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9042a59fd---7890898940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/babamevok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=after+effects+2020+windows+7PDF 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_off0000dc6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC6F 17608 bytes
SHA-256: 4401814ec36472269eb4b6fa72b190d680b9fe5af2b3a7407f8244c2de8050f2
font_01_sfnt_off000109b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B4 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 3c5692349218c9b8a051d7172252eafc494360c1e25e0b57214f7c5c1312d2b9
font_02_sfnt_off0001224f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1224F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1