Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a42d6d2beee0cee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:47:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7d6d94ab9391a0d21ada6ddd636bf356 SHA-1: df2789ba16f4411b965c435922b439fc4c780df7 SHA-256: 7a42d6d2beee0cee83af15067f5603987deaf1bed9b0cb9591204bd458a1638a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a phishing or malware distribution site. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the URL structure and the 'link farm' heuristics indicate a potential for JavaScript execution or redirection to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f051c47ae2---vafegedape.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://expobar.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/81778808449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/71809364382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muacuoi.vn/Pictures/files/buxotadepemubarebux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5f91c511d---xabifadidoxawavitaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a8af8f94116887c8abfd87673cfe323/69036292884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f2e864dfb---87853724563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/bufebedixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/14446580430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liubeauty.com/luutru/files/vigimakunemevazepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b826fc3eca781926b8ae9bc49c7badc9/18764294376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a382ddfaa536ae467861df81bca7867f/31167481885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sisparts.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/13277394938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgrappresentanze.eu/userfiles/files/59128193330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70555134949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4c6168e327---90019892385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aparcaderoshaddaichile.cl/uploads/images/files/gadawufokimewoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/palunefewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/gatarijijima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bffb61b6e27---juvosuditajuvevur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609859324e67e---34953399125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbigniewrodak.pl/galeria/file/vatekipasirejupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chokysitohang.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/56279695769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protok.pro/upload/files/52555306482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=basic+piano+sight+reading+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_off0000f83a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF83A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001104c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1104C 18224 bytes
SHA-256: e8f5935dcf91e6eb47e180e8a3f4657f39c42309cf62c9fcc300d000f8aa0f53
font_02_sfnt_off00013f71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F71 10904 bytes
SHA-256: e4a4c3b03f6e2a57b946f8e2fbb15c08ab49c51e87d0a7a7d9cc7e77e1f18b19