Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b4935e2bfc84bfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-08-01 10:05:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 933d6889a73081809235679bcf8ccb4f SHA-1: e3617bd4cc3f69101594e1d82b11cedefd513258 SHA-256: 7b4935e2bfc84bfa6a77b3d0d304a499adc5ea160451536db2d8e339b6d321d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=when+to+use+waterfall+model+advantages PDF link annotation
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/75598857763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/60973046302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/7782656745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/jeremujegijunede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/fopoveluwanopore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ba264c925---10041890008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075beb2ba5f3---37279998310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f642e42d3faa4736a5448dd2cba5867d/76968213734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energy-labels.com/userfiles/file/netimoredovelabawezasobob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kardelendalgicpompa.com/uploadfiles/file/vitoreg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/830e321f729d4d2c0a83cfc425b7f87f/janukomorozasigiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links.com/images/blog//file/sikasemeboveser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/82018642609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/gamosuripivupinipejida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/79411425948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c450d16d7aa0eca5f5d781e42fafe079/1063771373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t35aln6a74rdddm26pnc76j2nc/12253408344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/bakajepekidibisatotebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemwares.com/userfiles/file/rakefuvomofomolexorugolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/9533581941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/lurepurudefuzuxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a459251126---73903351663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/rujavuxoxoxamuvekimetot.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_off0000f40d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF40D 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 528f92633cbae28ed0b5f3752b7dfcaf671be74f0aa71e925e4e6905295b89ca
font_01_sfnt_off00010d23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D23 16388 bytes
SHA-256: 747df5fc9d2332c5a28e8cd4664461172395d7544262ba9a394adce23f177549
font_02_sfnt_off00013775.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13775 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1