Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7baa4d934fbb5f76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 22:04:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 11d68b8a737508d2c15c2160c2537577 SHA-1: 5f79712acc88dbaf72bfc7f0b83776aad1c18878 SHA-256: 7baa4d934fbb5f76c67ff67294a860e2a7786d4e95c62bb4c3b8c9c69d5f1c66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several heuristics indicating a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or content-luring campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f60cb080fb---30347953897.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mtlebanon62.com/clients/5/5e/5ee551a8be14a26d7d76bc5e90dd1372/File/wixobosav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ofo3l3ttvn6nbe21uaqe45aoe6/87616916048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloc-immo.com/images/8319021351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youandisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69702864019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087617e3c6bd---19308484852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27698db716---mizemufopunog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/vuwera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aed39107f2a---88505054858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8193abeb231a61117da134008a490594/vixuvemaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/buvujodebatedadopub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077130bad4c7---31541209140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/pisuvabinutenifapaxeximab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4572296d1b2db81b46b020ea154b4dff/97119965449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiabiru.com/contents//files/wavivisodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099fa6f0ba93---71414433607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b2d16ae91---93500439342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9e818f619af22a46dadb95135a496bd/divunibifopemututidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenconcord.com/uploads/files/29635118651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607faf9d9f471---46654473192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k584eve4658b6iavqe9ka22icl/36122640447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6adb19929---nivopinoxojigabidixodoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/83149669799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/gomugabano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dae07eb95963fb6dedbb4ae749899fb/benaxukegudigovanased.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=transformation+process+in+operations+management+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_off0001047f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1047F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011c91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C91 16484 bytes
SHA-256: db62de0140ffcfd4c9d9f92c7b71f21c1dd8b099ea208f0bbbdbc008ea1c8592
font_02_sfnt_off00014732.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14732 10880 bytes
SHA-256: bfa468aef0f6ed8a846b3e6ac7b33c4213c42fb80c44d5e0d15c543b3647298f