Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a4a5a091affa44a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:04:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6cbee7497c1d3abd00dbe5cba0b8a65e SHA-1: 5881adf9ad57f033c7ee3b37580d2805cd59dd3a SHA-256: 7a4a5a091affa44ab152b9cf5ea218e3c18693b81846621f46366eef5abb73a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded links suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely leveraging a link farm to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607251d03801d---57267596515.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/64489029089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/sakixuvuwevitijer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonebriarranch.com/clients/876969/File/24522343587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/57131284381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/232ee4c2273d5183c3adc8d4cc8412a4/zewumefozekurise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westhollywood.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/pagagujabotabuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emotionalgift.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/getuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.casasemio.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9131282923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/devajefikanodufowaliraka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drishtinetcom.in/FCKeditor/file/9564176206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bagstyle.uz/images/file/tibegibemuzepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/941a55f099d010f3c37a4d7b1cbc696b/zesenetutojoketopevaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813e7de07a8---19162247020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkglobalcompliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53284046729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://articolo17.it/siti//usr/foto/files/90700605859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belst.by/upload/file/74585156715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a41a033651---tidogokavolarusedar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb9b68c4686---kepane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9e4088177---57111168336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be7fc370977---77800157124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7fd8f06814---naroxaxepogejev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6p887m43lc9f0def7f11v9vja6/93315093845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06924c06fc---43988017141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softtox.com/new/userfiles/file/vulato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjrjtrmr94581oer9lakfmdtld/dalukidalupisadawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalnoboy.com/data/filestorage/upload/files/26879074663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=standard+first+aid+and+cpr+c+test+answersPDF 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_off000134ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014d04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D04 10608 bytes
SHA-256: b8e939599916ba5153ee070cc5f02fa39cbc9966ebb64ec6082841d9e0e1e9e9
font_02_sfnt_off0001656c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1656C 18824 bytes
SHA-256: 6efd6bda650a0b244a2ed481c379d9f58d4cbebe0202a763e39839c5c5d6a30c