Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b6491469034cfe3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-23 21:25:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 543e83eb16d97d7d07b4689e809e8877 SHA-1: 3f6d72f34c2c04c76c6a0f06bafb05f8c7370a21 SHA-256: 7b6491469034cfe3f9a54ff5d870a7d118c833339c5d3557dc91d49c331b194e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content-based clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://creativitagh.com/pevron/www/img/file/89568769520.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098585d31990---24054056975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089838c747cf---jutokusagojajulopozibila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxkbm.com/clients/2/28/28fcaa936e2ecbeb6c9a97ea0f1ab253/File/65856482277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pristineleather.com/userfiles/file/7106425075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/lesajawomofekusivol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cea3151a5d5d3542b81fd6511ab71f49/38606454794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759d3e9bbd7---52313813191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a105387c921---mupizezezaxefuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/85972546930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609910ab9e32f---91656369805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinanxintiandi.com/userfiles/files/mesejonerogiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20658a10d98a5db4063b9d31536da09b/lofenozulipunabuwatulaxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a760c1689fcaa8e24092d955bc7c0a1/duvokela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021061815184273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/terasixosabejifupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/424a98c4329ef1fd3c8c6e078c630766/91247301108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmvt.cz/sites/default/files/lagejikinokeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c99116s8hp321u5q7r12di2mn3/mamofasopiwepiledip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/webimofipimolos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v11qee3ugob4jdrh35v1kqcsu0/pivexetenaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8405eca025f2808ef0a692b4fc510725/terunowipezexapajok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//65706198003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=sejarah+dinasti+abbasiyah+pdfPDF 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_off0000eaed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAED 16476 bytes
SHA-256: e7704416077d50bbb988c3a41f1aa3bfaeac834b53acd01e1eeac4446c77d150
font_01_sfnt_off000115b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115B4 10888 bytes
SHA-256: fb99bad7f9373f08596c689129ecb9b9a72e078b9941a95e0afd2d1677d415ae
font_02_sfnt_off00012e90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1