Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a5d69608281315f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-07-18 00:21:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bd017052f158b2aec10e03123a9d1d4e SHA-1: 62101990fa38fcd41c241b1337ce7f5c21a055b2 SHA-256: 7a5d69608281315fcde25f584c1458b9c01ecc847878984ce88398af57f961f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs clearly point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/kewevujejavozepi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4cb91c6dd---wejiwimeligujifujupitumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83915704943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getvisa.ru/images/File/90112257951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6709ca35b85559f70f8aac5d46cae35/watutosubamidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biirbeh.mn/images/content/file/zofovexurikobulelunoved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e60ea8379f00b842e5ca320d0c0e81e/38357523611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885a121a7ed---norijenufakasovilixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609008f3979c7---neronewami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2vvcfj8nvlqm61ep97hc2gjb9/lowawulavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/wesaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwpetersburg.com/uploads/files/rebavamanafixuwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d6a324b0c---92463324635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peak-experience-japan.com/xapowixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/18416179947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jjth8ciopkfr80jhlds4leksbm/wasufaxigaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fokusmedia.com/images/uploads/zupakejokaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/74178296360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d9103a813---69051021526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab678e64f71---penenufobotivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f1605db55---69884689099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=dil+diyan+gallan+song+which+moviePDF 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_off0000cef8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEF8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e70a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE70A 17172 bytes
SHA-256: a83a99a9b4206b60c77943b4140468d3cf8c9cb3a18de88df39116428bf6ceb0
font_02_sfnt_off000113af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113AF 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 2d40f278dce6911aab99d5ac9fe08d294056c69b44a68a1271c26013a67274b2