Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a6da1a8b5fcaf08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:54:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 26d245948537b796c73820c00f48f552 SHA-1: 3b43726490aaf3d1fc4d30cd6d2a523e525b8ddd SHA-256: 7a6da1a8b5fcaf0899f87c88db19811dd93f6f0c654b5a5e0adf42a60bb10a20
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external URLs for potential phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bts+theme+app+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319fe859d55---89960903546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podhoru.cz/userfiles/file/10908919097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszemotyle.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/37364521300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/74117889777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b270a7kf.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/senudimev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents/files/87519672881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianlanlawyer.com/filespath/files/20210911105022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138b6527c33d---67336152322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/ruzirawalaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.vn/upload/files/woxenalukurofogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/21908310312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tl-maskinfabrik.dk/userfiles/file/28942902183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gcr.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/80490143289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coherence.cz/userfiles/file/15230299420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613575809a464---sepabisisoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccmiennam.com/media/ftp/file/nezepurekarikimapubodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/20219141446127485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtjjt.com/2013/upload/article/files/2109131430042378150vgw0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-guskov.ru/uploads/files/16252456749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blekinge.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/puzetajewovozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/upload/2021/09/file/1631142174833090564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kperrylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/89914097164.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_off0000f802.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF802 18044 bytes
SHA-256: eccdd88dad5dddac287c78648fca8def3ef03f91452086fab4876cef91500d5e
font_01_sfnt_off0001274c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1274C 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 73f244a7287621246bf1861648a3649c86bf3e162ba57bf2538ddcbd4e16305f
font_02_sfnt_off00013fec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1