Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a62b0f7ccafcded…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-06-09 10:10:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: c8508678bad4cc0a1375a12a5f6d8992 SHA-1: c64529ca100eeb832b5ce1dd2f1747d0815c2d58 SHA-256: 7a62b0f7ccafcded1bf3b54c3783124f6ac8fff33bf733f2286d6879f43b7079
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a mathematical term, potentially a disguise for a malicious payload or redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=minimo+comun+multiplo+de+8+y+12 PDF link annotation
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07fc4fa4ad4684ebb60bdf0d7003f630/xufigigesupajegipaxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/43733786667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab16cdcbc9d---kimepowoxiduxukozalunek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/14391089075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4b4bc2aea---93961342847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5pu6tmeg7i8kqj9sg63afpg5f/25146395343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/sbsisnew/userfiles/file/dewowaxusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16098c4a034bef---dizulifof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/11900419031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8d332b360e53defa478134b7d6134bd/92293187530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c92f22297---juwukonawetonazovewuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cae81d01fd---lowonilafugebuxuluzelat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c24266ad39485e05721f87fdd0cc2ce8/32083984436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fdscience.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/zupezelexozizusax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a431bb984df0ca90f849f7e3a74182c8/jatukusevutokole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cfe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFE5 5220 bytes
SHA-256: a12deb221eaee691e9d562be623ac3d9c6104ecb85dbec9079d4342c1d7d354f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1B9 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 50bc413f4a9e7cac92408708b58a75713357687e298870c74482f43dc8fea63b