Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7afa07d74fa8f0e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:47:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 530a1b3f9ce7b2142f8927fb274c3fd8 SHA-1: 7ab7fb3b401c0f913a3614868b72d612ac043e9f SHA-256: 7afa07d74fa8f0e3419ab3a5c9a712e87775f3bc7a5ef2a6d7d4e6a45ecb2bf9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to compromised websites or phishing pages. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads further indicates malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+unban+a+player+on+minecraft+server PDF link annotation
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ibkr4rg1qaek1ecms9f83tlt0/zimeligalesidom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083885f513cc---davekewofipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3adc2923e9---66497205288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c851aab0b15---vipafobuzudevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntiverification.com/userfiles/file/2977137903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8de55d5389ad04ec6e983a84fed7e271/33483144749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdjcm.com/upload/files/sotorodolilezikulojesuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38406978463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/kutezalegazizinoxiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenobiacultura.it/userfiles/file///wariviguza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungnguyenjsc.vn/uploads/image/files/98390061162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windscrm.net/files/file/61507400642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahrestygz.com/userfiles/files/20210710_085429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamessham.com/admin/usercontent/file/8492246387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/39759760927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f482f2a1ba3c11b3b7320ec6d2a1944/78333370813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c69e548f37bb8d5400c2a75d6c3b7fc6/63466553095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0286869143.com/editor_images/files/dodizakefivazuvezib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19tsth8nsm1bic9m8qgbdvsr2p/25659774540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b412996e3f2---lerexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webvitamin.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/4352339213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad3utm4e08hij94lsn865i5ae0/pagorojorurekipojitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kantoromega.pl/userfiles/file/mofivate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siltherm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guxajiwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/kanawejarijozafa.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e21f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE21F 17144 bytes
SHA-256: 6ff8ecbf59ca81d44c18e3937b20ac7ce18a91f01dcbf3add1192f38a51869e9
font_01_sfnt_off00010e4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E4B 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 100fdd654c73a261960e38edf03e337ff184fcc642c0e6bb58d10fdc414dd4ab
font_02_sfnt_off00012822.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12822 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1