Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7af4309edc1108b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:53:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 0907a7762b274d8528533b94f6193763 SHA-1: 3a6c250cb0f57af146410a6a92e4b5014f2530fc SHA-256: 7af4309edc1108b6d8a149abb40e7d4beffcb294b4f87adb6ecce10128010e6d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a phishing or malicious download lure. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL analysis indicate a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://vgi-vn.vn/app/webroot/img/files/1270653875.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085cc4d52a22---80716112327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metamorfoza-krosno.pl/userfiles/file/nejetudusapisonofuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/fademij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fourfoods.com/images/files/rujoligogudematenotojisoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swift-tw.com/lcc/upload/files/8588296505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/27022849443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synphabase.ch/upload/file/pigodisujumonuvuzufukame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ok-poland.com/userfiles/file/zumokuvevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3780e503f---33441592171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1076dce3a---97124109945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thai-apsproducts.com/file_media/file_image/file/16636151606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d45c9366c---22555835451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d712e5cf7105060e72c9f70fb5fc9b28/49051094606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/bamipemavanazim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc025.com/userfiles/file/20210724223738_87zcjb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/3320650702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/jurolulokawiwalajiroxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49791635f973c4a4c156624a37dc17da/89201137698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velocimapper.com//webfiles/file/bulapenuzisumetikefuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/258455010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://physocare.com/Images_upload/files/zuseladexiwoxefexaxuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/604794c4cc3299e18ecd1167b9991aae/kakib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/38754340124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mvinvtoqmhc2qqc85hsiihe6m8/91120731436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transcash.com/ci/userfiles/files/12062931883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=mathematical+physics+by+rajput+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000e040.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE040 18720 bytes
SHA-256: 6078afae3f699f8fc33745ba7b9869bc0e7042ab32cd00052def1e832cf7cd95
font_01_sfnt_off0001115e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1115E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012975.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12975 11448 bytes
SHA-256: 98f2efe95c3c96f10efa61da30230a0b0f67945a58b712dfe4df9b4c95d4e29e