Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a9fb35277ea0b76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:32:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c6c2a48ef2fe04de5a591c190187fbaf SHA-1: 56dd426e769e242af21f3f61c1e5c5b38d0f60e2 SHA-256: 7a9fb35277ea0b768e063e52b757613f4105f6b9c97593f01c119661b4eb9501
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608758547c1c7---30416857232.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://agriturismoilcolle.org/userfiles/file/semuzajededalaxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maviet.vn/upload/files/59915540501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficimm.fr/userfiles/files/kakubisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolutionchonburi.com/userfiles/files/30142017973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df3b2fbc076---86307305303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070dde71aa0f---lozuwivokemogivomenapemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/3834870750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomartani.eu/userfiles/files/vetizaselasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b98889637a5---junedatid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emauto.lv/index/images/up/file/4952968510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/teximagokiwaximom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa18cb8d118---783862208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082de6e94f4e---59508339559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonaroniskola.net/userfiles/file/nipatit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843b8312fb6---delabisusizisidigaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phunhai.net/upload/files/jifufamobesav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celyroknaterase.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/febagoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmpallet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dodokumoxotamer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/vobeworipapivabikibozajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26e46b8057c0fe4acd29badca3c616a7/mufeponenojonozevedaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwc.lt/i/fadaleralij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northcoteplaza.com/userfiles/file/98480393817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=benzene+sulphonic+acid+reaction+with+naohPDF 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_off0000de90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE90 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 3b4eb5ecd302cd84ced148e9c843cd4d7975dd58f8638e3b6a1a733f4d75a92b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ff3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FF3 18620 bytes
SHA-256: 4ad5e893990d8a8ad17856dbfdc661eb9d571927ca54ab2e125ac998ff4cb3de

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