Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7afab6fc3a16c5da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

191.6 KB Created: 2021-07-05 04:43:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5d1d897d70bbba31edc201c8985f3c6b SHA-1: 92d35262c28c65e43a0725837127546975320dcc SHA-256: 7afab6fc3a16c5dac2c0a0d6d538b4cc6a67dd6cb8f714ce42337d132858b8d4
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. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9906

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://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/biavbkgskvld50543ngmgs7684/dewupazukadi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://schokozentrale.de/idata/fokegilunixabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/59362218205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a9e4d0f9b68a801ee05e8c10258b5c6/79247483700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipsclubcr.com/campannas/file/lujufabesatarakesed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae762fbc960---85430409968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e205aeeac90d9d714b47a8ebc4ed595/wobitenav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3092ba1f1---1283631229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d1a6d65d7---vagematoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/tuzixateg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8k7t3o9g9pd5thachquucttbh/7383013779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/46460117074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.vn/uploads/files/55072335778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/10925531510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielstrehlau.com/userfiles/file/32690946371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaziemirkentkonseyi.com/upload/files/tesomagefigavakudinuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/bokup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18a060c2c9f6d245e3fcf0ecf11aa604/4176221285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-plovdiv.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sisetovimizobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a728ce667d080c790055a7805782267/98948967596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c57c0659d2---fomomot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tappowine.com/file/bodedum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dtmhqghm6k0g0op1hgt0b96mt/13332451561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgpropertylawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a96aef5f3aa8765154a3c121efd13242/63431849042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=get+up+callPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3bf2f194f1---wirulakuwuli.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_off000282eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x282EB 9924 bytes
SHA-256: 64f87ccf908aa1c6a5f4c357703e5037ba8bc0f54d26d512e19775f674668289
font_01_sfnt_off00029902.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x29902 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0002b114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2B114 29580 bytes
SHA-256: 662f89ef84e7ed72cff668d45737067049c11d2527c7596967430beeff14885a