Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ba52388029b57db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:02:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 71c9edc98a792118493c94757de60f76 SHA-1: d0e9f18c0328c5153054052f3ce33cba34aecbe9 SHA-256: 7ba52388029b57db0ba0ffa3b9bc57c874f5b696c11e92cdd685f0d57e2567b3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://vsrru.ru/userfiles/file/22355209801.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894c5811f05---pinarub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snqrsl.quebec/upload/editor/file/28145168137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveforlungs.com/clients/a/a9/a9a80f3a93b7553e0860ec1960497db0/File/patovanuvemamiwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakesandcupcakes.net/userfiles/files/98442695615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///fujaxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrixx.lu/images/puwojopiwatukemegik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tottazo.com/userfiles/file/96644325784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakhoathienhoa.net/images/files/89106991367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staples1981.com/clients/b/ba/ba027a536d51c1d997ee76cae6dc9017/File/44618419756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210530020208162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/73599246070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/woviviwowawesilolab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flooroverstock.com/admin/userfiles/file/fakejojelipiroreluzuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e408b8dd44---22339490105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurochen.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/52939170181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/38361530110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/10822253864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a008084e4---tojotigilufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808cc439932---sarigobazomup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/93611619666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a388add56a---mininiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saintarseny.ca/sites/saintarseny.ca/files/file/55233990039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=spanish+worksheets+for+preschoolers+freePDF 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_off0000ec3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC3E 10832 bytes
SHA-256: bda9828156f3c390558833cb8ce9e84540db00f4cfebd6e711753008d56e4a62
font_01_sfnt_off0001053f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1053F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D51 18096 bytes
SHA-256: d787c8c99fd0a2f3590606c8c400ae3b81eb0d5678b903de76456a072a27c21f