Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a93aeaa50b925a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:06:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a2d7527e1cdd7f00cdf1088206a3170d SHA-1: 4e53f3d65d4fbd168ae15e0aa5a823d7940a1b62 SHA-256: 7a93aeaa50b925a7ce1f8b23cb9bcb97340b6220e8fac841fc21b79b28d340f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports its role in directing users to potentially harmful content.

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=picadora+de+carne+antigua+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3fe16071a---35376267250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jfnln70a4daq12fhtkr592apd/30754261627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843368aed30---1104849125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterreducer.cn/d/files/towokezadoruze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/27255970703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrd5q0efkvb0mmfrqq6madcdao/24664680979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvclassof1990.com/clients/8/8c/8ca0ba2c7a07c5cd1f21f9fc323c16c5/File/ribiwodesenudawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.biz/userfiles/files/65589347334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b62d642ad---mikeladevumolokomezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ee74e343a---fetimusevupubebel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crescentcarpets.com/userfiles/file/2484893498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sovaimm.it/userfiles/files/89863380096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24cvety.ru/upload/files/dezokunikipaxipifedaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729e439fa50---sovipebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/24819978472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b142d61cb---40176671736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/54826517982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756c17d08e4---48523884363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b37d4f16659ca33c909e91678ebc29e2/ratugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gj18mo4n5dgp19jl7bk29admh9/xenunademosalevemasadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusen-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/sutepivudenawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00035aa7fb63d03d42744c9dda9cbc8c/91573843893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84a4785ee58a0705bdf1e89df591ae9d/58414839162.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_off0000d3cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3CF 19772 bytes
SHA-256: 0391efe705db52086a97bf0c46928f8d8ecc24f4699e8e110a8c4bf30ebfa951
font_01_sfnt_off000106ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ee1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE1 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 952028179fb067d475de52366444476f9810bc41dd001df61936549f3a5a723f