Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bfa93fa63f24cb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:28:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b310d60887648ec492d8526be61c0432 SHA-1: 0370d332141bf8918a1a3e1bad9bd5386efa67a5 SHA-256: 7bfa93fa63f24cb6688d0a4f52ed730829ebd30ef73d97ee108560a50c244cac
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, indicating an attempt to redirect the user to malicious websites. Heuristics suggest it functions as a link farm on compromised hosting, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, consistent with a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+information+studies+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cungcapthitdetuoi.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/53651355767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c03c89a8424---kibumutubenokasodum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzbau-napetschnig.at/zategorazebatogikepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gkatsov.com/userfiles/file/12571116717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3ab8f70b87---33818354272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20gnsd2m8lukseehqcdd5fkfj0/11817711269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf5045416d5230cc27c327f791a38ed9/57003259574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memoservicesrl.it/file/7977277235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmucmr287ur9igf6r012sj0psg/17810584652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricount.cz/UserFiles/File/12495128649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://italvaping.com/file/6978782987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woykoff.hu/upload/file/5588740060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e8e3e4916dfc56cd121583bdf27eacd/tawibefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fdc0017cf4---jeboguke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d7fe26457---lemosin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutunggiahungoto.com/uploads/files/riweposenagozozilotulekov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-chat.tw/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94821027358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/viwowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldbermanmaimonidesgolf2021.com/clients/0/0d/0d43fbb8ff91cab41fa1b056c0d912a9/File/vaxudafume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c81ef90ae2---16701971634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liweisteel.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/limozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/zabozisavaliwixomubakuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/tebonarudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fertilityupdates.com/userfiles/files/96746830036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6967635046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vhssirimpanam.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86852971152.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_off0000dfd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFD2 18092 bytes
SHA-256: 90af9ea64afe844033adb855d279742c1605df2dd19a6a3643ab6f5384f01698
font_01_sfnt_off00010e67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E67 10784 bytes
SHA-256: e2578da5704ea4c6d5d82094a15fec0be8478d3deac6893d29bb35399220a9b4
font_02_sfnt_off0001273f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1273F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1