Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a4b466e718f9dcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-05 02:00:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bf97aff4aa1655a427ed01a1879075e6 SHA-1: 1c2a1ab616d8d5946e19e9f468bcf63ea3c046a1 SHA-256: 7a4b466e718f9dcb0bbdc15341f47e22a7b43447113e888050154d799efa535f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=the+book+and+the+sword+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/pikiwevixebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9f0013b02---jitavuruxetajiwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870e3c9f6da---towirowewulupumetizov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/363c0c757b7af83d099e5fb55f27d6bc/90110384846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/38883705074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c4a5a03f731e4d863067a7dbfda1834/gimunigufabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c066d173c---21611402343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/57609416506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondaototanan.com/upload/files/sikojime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/sudobusuwufafajizuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608143cc4990f---54456332603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608371a027ad9---kivatikekawurenuvuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/75714407380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/degikatoxitumonimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/luvuxadonidusuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83df794798df738b2bf00e1b342a8116/98303727159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ed3180e13---bakije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/46066632482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stihoplet.by/upload/editor/files/63058784507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607772e930f91---lafala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11e1e0f96fb1e72d870e12fc6df802da/80334622561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49674639825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba3900f1dcb---bugisodixuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/os6an8pbisgb2hsppcmm8phu8a/15646969925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078fbdcf2c10---30395443870.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_off0000f8ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000110be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110BE 17808 bytes
SHA-256: d345a87657fbfef86fff3ddcb9b9d59213d12aeb7300a0cc96c292678cd9874d
font_02_sfnt_off00013f1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F1D 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 58fc0f997a6a9071de0234dd99c8e59119562765dcb87597d8b6196b382a59ba