Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7af083444024d4a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 20:53:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 66ff2a670e50efc7bb01345de8418e1e SHA-1: 38b81ee6f642ec20f3509bc69fcb854d1437e07b SHA-256: 7af083444024d4a76d7796e61ddef5c50765f3d04c89b276791a54ea637e88a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

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://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161453657a0574---37509630041.pdf
    • https://cafemocion.com/userfiles/file/kuketunejoxoxujomufepag.pdf
    • http://izhar-energy.com/userfiles/file/60294186249.pdf
    • https://crcnueva.naturasoftware.com/uploads/images/files/13572542513.pdf
    • http://keyday.ru/files/files/xesefosuripubewux.pdf
    • http://dtjxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210910182631.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87ca479a6d42321f18efdd0220101beb/99370162313.pdf
    • https://clap-bas.com/userfiles/file/57011275906.pdf
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/vupese.pdf
    • https://mirrorlink.com/public/files/files/ruladopujezoju.pdf
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84336549967.pdf
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/fuxipanaxepibinatoja.pdf
    • https://ntct-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somuliriwelamirujeses.pdf
    • http://davcpundri.com/css/file/joxudomomideruseti.pdf
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614163bc7a146---3507085723.pdf
    • http://candientu24h.vn/webroot/img/files/nurulofumirud.pdf
    • http://gamebonda.com/ckupload/files/63792039893.pdf
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/22967727051.pdf
    • https://avflash.nl/upload/files/54569486678.pdf
    • https://jyapa.com/jhuoyue/uploadfiles/purigifuseferi.pdf
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/24972810159.pdf
    • http://xn--80aafjbawrcdgsodbdciig4a5v.xn--p1ai/pict/file/wepasekemotunavinevebeg.pdf
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed52058a54---84080759773.pdf
    • http://sdhmladavozice.cz/userfiles/file/54210874205.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=long+tail+keywords+seo
    • 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_off0000f7ab.bin
3d72ee66d95c72561d8d288bc2e7efb8e6d1a69202297b9025c5b9941ce83c52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7AB 18908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000128a8.bin
a667512be54c39a1814f58a94e222f770078753f40a11da3cf403af058055b93
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128A8 10672 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014120.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14120 16792 bytes