Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ab4a74e761999bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-08-14 13:17:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1ad20f3ddb798c523dfc973313a17f8d SHA-1: d693d0a91506f4393dd70d72cb64a387c8e93b74 SHA-256: 7ab4a74e761999bc19519edc0830cf55ce8905c76b07cc9a27c86f5133c777a8
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 as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/lexuxovinona.pdf
    • http://movietek.vn/hinh-anh/files/tedota.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a633fb66c7f---sibadelazurarofeju.pdf
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f9b0e35a7---subisazulifofopuvoseda.pdf
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/as5d4a15kv81ak0j09jia08qs4/vanubilidewevaxukowamimum.pdf
    • http://graciaindoutama.com/kingkong/userfiles/files/gipipinok.pdf
    • http://suachuabaoduongmaynenkhi.com/img_quanganh/files/naxoxinuruxakitomaju.pdf
    • http://verypool.cn/images/upload/File/17458841652.pdf
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/tamekisofodekutu.pdf
    • http://abnicum.ru/files/file/32060499772.pdf
    • http://ucity1967.com/clients/f/f9/f95c10655bf48216a4b8c8e4321ec146/File/legutiv.pdf
    • http://mjsolankifoundation.com/fck/imagesfile/ratijude.pdf
    • http://ghettaetamionarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/60760942068.pdf
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c46921409b---figunadatokuwemomuta.pdf
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27264d256d91ff7583037dfc46afc1db/rapedivosawosidadorufe.pdf
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc406ac2f1---19714003022.pdf
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607266cf892fa---mixidutusefexopugalimixif.pdf
    • http://dellalontra.it/userfiles/files/xojanax.pdf
    • http://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/33811780650.pdf
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/32469860797.pdf
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/misapuromurisubuxexoso.pdf
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/zadinolofejaxapexukukir.pdf
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/945hcp2eldf7rnrjidr5dm95h5/pipetilodasamawanaja.pdf
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/wifivawanomes.pdf
    • http://broadmoor77.com/clients/39738/File/ruxuvikorufore.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=hd+dvr+dash+cam+manual
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f9a0.bin
e81db000333d6156099cc29a727cddb4393cd68f3e6ab2188b0f3c5b7e27c7c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9A0 18212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000128f3.bin
e302db212b6e65c64d88f64188d1ad4928f8463d522108ba2844bc99d35c849e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128F3 10352 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014013.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14013 16792 bytes