Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a9fc098fe2ab8e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:25:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f7d7e925e9082edb803df936fcf5fd7f SHA-1: 84f93f700dd89d18b8ebe88a89fecdeecdf94b9a SHA-256: 7a9fc098fe2ab8e5ea4922c673244a7cf1a35319ff1bb5e392d0a79b132f331c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URI patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/rewixozabo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9190074a2426288014f104c0e2495bd/93577134042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alajuusa.ee/media/contents/file/53174081568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenkatsu.dk/files/zubavanomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5af857ec4---rupagobupaxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609920d18abd8---tazirogilidaganona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c5216008152b076a94029ff266eab26/zosinafusez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968b3e449ce---63485556908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbaytag.com/resimler/files/bonenotegewadokaruluduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaushalacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rotivepivebifetinunatuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://odlingfamily.com/userfiles/file/58033012183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzky.cn/dubeite/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210629_073710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/bumob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5cl94bk0uhkl4l3johkaaluk1/gozexibewexosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimwendelldesign.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20659498618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/66792167385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhimaninteriors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roforux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/88297830367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quocteanviet.com/img-chamthi/files/71383755784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ff12398ad---86907693757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole.ru/text/images/file/dokibori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aafbb2b211d---nezifesupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkety-patemal.sk/files/file/14613193086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c834c71106f8b93e4e0c1c1c4d44ff4f/15765048472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=jelqing+guide+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_off0000dae0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAE0 10260 bytes
SHA-256: cb18f2785d01ca1793011eda43efa732a8061153e5ccae1e8ab22d45b0e5d40d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f16a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16A 18560 bytes
SHA-256: 3ea8eab2172f856f61268da7fc298e9dbe2e3e6aacba1441b3e31475e088d749
font_02_sfnt_off000120f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1