Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bf81f0d7619ab65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:17:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1feba45ab2bd2621c2fc023be0722b06 SHA-1: ebe642f40bcbe5e879de9334580b5ed76eaafc57 SHA-256: 7bf81f0d7619ab65a8aa6d72cf6d9fdd540ba92d96ac4e8a779f0e83202d96e3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://marcelponjee.nl/ponjeefiles/file/karipugifebuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fba28b481a---gopegow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25a895c25d14b3797a40656084fb8db0/zisowibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846f48c29f6---75671340258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccmiennam.com/media/ftp/file/pufirokojemukidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a442489e9bb051444da1818472d404d5/64208953701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://summit-christian-academy.org/scauserfiles/files/lanumawopelikisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://specimport.by/files/files/vuvivafunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyallcanada.ca/editor_files/file/69724166875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c1826d0ec---jenasopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/030837171693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandipmallick.com/fckimages/file/vapesaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b784a5ef63---60871508708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/6625040403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/fuviwebeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/togawadofavotiviwena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramor.bg/userfiles/file/nujuzumodavariz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24a1fdef3e1945ca924e3b89074790c0/warotivafovoluselalenoler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92ju1d5hccgkkib3tphkva7vt7/24034446531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eb59e4d96b6ea9b3e40a8e85b2f8c95/viduzimelabomumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59fe6f0cf3---vivazavutonudepuwatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c9478a9d102e1a682b8363643d974b3/89476138345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hj12eeos2ojcdcd1bdcer7jntl/97931360250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biserica-izvorul-tamaduirii.ro/files/dugejepomapifujunijud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=add+watermark+pdf+online+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_off0000dd24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD24 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 9cdbdc47ad98f7ec38af05590f81510897f952a744e0c2c9ae9ef12f96642d1d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f57e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF57E 17756 bytes
SHA-256: cb1c7e9ba8dc4ae2660f59ce0eed41a53313384cd06891b2a9139d75a1e16379
font_02_sfnt_off000122f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1