Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a8af0cabbc93bc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:59:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c957bdede289fcfe67a33ef520ae77e7 SHA-1: 3095eb99df08fb4647315ba5a91a45f70753f2dc SHA-256: 7a8af0cabbc93bc1379abad0011ee384950ba73df34bbb97b74742aa1a4abd25
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its direct content, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/um7p52nj3at5nnn5qvh1b0ois6/81617705347.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/75236092641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/30565570843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41a3b7fa96fdba0c2125a0a095d55e86/pixexamamivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f0506749fb---28820607473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/801ec072b0a0ac31dd4b7250010cefbd/19875259359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69a9c1f7bdb66f5c87179dd07880b2ea/80563984336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bivalyracing.hu/files/file/bubuwolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb50f8cefb---39732319732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacongtudongbinhduong.com/upload/files/navorarigevom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetsaban3watnuea.com/UserFiles/file/78559494490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3bea0fa3e---71511989255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c79ca3d94e2---44286755491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28baf38895---zajidakavoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/kerutavafidejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/44351282261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bacb2c3c16b---28652953462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hutechsolar.com/upload/user_upload/files/fokukepemebasisukasinipam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.de/eros/userfiles/file/50472135411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/wiwefonetavulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kjc4qf53b04l9n3dsb89570uu7/gemod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfbadalona.net/ckdata/files/zemumulugifuxomekeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/tigutemaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashura.co/userfiles/files/jejajipaguzosamibufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1434073ac5---31909790077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/mosufisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcockeysville.com/uploads/files/dolazaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=canela+de+velho+bula+pdfPDF 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_off0000cce2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE2 18172 bytes
SHA-256: dd55229309586e227ce9dd470648c55bebbd7e36a5a2694075cffaa661070825
font_01_sfnt_off0000f974.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF974 10472 bytes
SHA-256: d00e182e1b5451de8e1d3ceafba3d51bede53855a9ef483b6acff7d574422d78
font_02_sfnt_off000110f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1