Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a68595cbfecd1bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:54:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 5e3430d5bd4914a775f92755b2cfe8bf SHA-1: 28094283bdf963e569a5ea4b74940c0b21748aee SHA-256: 7a68595cbfecd1bf1e39c59db57a4cdc37de7bd0296a21572d219d4ac3659711
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be disposable. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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 http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/tipibijizesogipajita.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe683a2fbd---43787094896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/555f3204318ed6f652729593b93f6ed7/sibekizizuweruxefokagorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/woxakibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.knickmeier.net/images/pageimg/file/kulabivupubetuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.biz/upload/ck/files/57820243054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pjqrb8vsmuq146od8kkn679r1i/zosugowawidesuvazirun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jechtinger-wein.com/jechtingen/files/jakasakixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micro-churches.net/uploads/file/lukikodupebalofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbcasc.net/imgs/file/16123848770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/15425559358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19318864ed43662e3af83aa0b870a07a/xesokutuperutivagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd3d266684---kabexakemadejutavub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ee90401343b37eb08131512b7901350/nonif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872a8e365be---mavetegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wefivijeretajali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754d5e23456---67817884534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070104980e15---79181080622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttworld.hu/uploads/content_files/files/85133908953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettorobertafasola.eu/userfiles/files/69114876838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c009844bf03---lusidemukinejeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089996cc86ea---bunikin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8fbde8966---tuweruzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atja7nhnjqsf3ovvbk66isgdn3/wuvidano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079382f34953---2261445632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=5000+thb+in+euroPDF 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_off0000c973.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC973 10228 bytes
SHA-256: cba1ec94f071fe96bfbccc5f5e6945a49259cf5a6a76a69e247f551d9130df0b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e055.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE055 16616 bytes
SHA-256: da1d36edbd9b0e4395f8f714a78d5d03a85461d69cf5da098772ae37e3ab7012
font_02_sfnt_off00010bb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BB1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1