Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7acb94491456b29c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-31 10:45:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 484348a396c18e7e20a1c26c0b9ecba4 SHA-1: 2bc44a04837b90d8319734e18d9ca73c1424b525 SHA-256: 7acb94491456b29c9c7c8690d0f5215c61c4d9868ad34eb6314805323f54c0f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=algorithms+by+dasgupta+papadimitriou+and+vazirani+solution+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/mikojote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097308fa04bd---38312756089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f33019474---zunizituliditulofamovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/rabati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a34c8cc9d9b---merukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/wawubumexawevumakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f843ce3113---20953349999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0499c81459e8fdb37db813e713548d01/tamuxetiwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nng7vk6akfa04plf24be5ggmm0/1176318312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globaltruthmediagroup.com/clients/a/aa/aa8380eac451876ae6ab993bf3a720d6/File/44192732434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/54608484970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/dawurujimuxesejum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baccc553b30---18514037065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/3772267351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpszone.hu/upload/userfiles/file/dosokizuleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamurgoreng.net/contents//files/xipodolewefesojamatakirap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b530fd3170---zebelopizut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/sibatululifomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mgnbjecjg90r5bi2jeqlc4lan1/gijiwiludemowawagaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/bumokez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svltv.in/userfiles/files/2598842173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polandpools.com/contents//files/midigelilajadukuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086776e933a5---93655765157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/20521763531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/nizude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609defad2c266---50614517086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eucolait.eu/userfiles/files/73768405971.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_008_off00012cf5.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x12CF5 17848 bytes
SHA-256: 6a5f285a3490ad6971b4b2ff7c21a0a761fe967d0efed3b691bf6e431a59cd4c
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD8A 11276 bytes
SHA-256: 2c516616ab41c286e61eb37309dfb665dafd0ebdd44353e08c55fc00ac6ff0f9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e778.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE778 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF8A 17304 bytes
SHA-256: c6aa2a838436cec9531cb5889e0476ad2a7733a2266c428f41076a7fc1b7c0d5