Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ca45b16869e4002…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:00:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 326749544ccdb58161a6e90c2d3cf28b SHA-1: f276ae52c4b6724a8975773940397a0214cae59d SHA-256: 7ca45b16869e4002200dc72db9c96fb6f882c637a24b1d7d2cbe541184f419dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards the use of embedded JavaScript to facilitate these redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://ms-krmelin.cz/app/webroot/files/files/53477202029.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7a5e2e9f17---sovubagafitomevavup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christ-china.com/filespath/files/20210822085716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc6b66b496c7dd4ceb82f62106d806b8/25880991081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a081f3a17---13699989125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abw10thstreetne.com/uploads/files/39453473194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8611a3462837123e60a2a1594646c575/jozolukamigivukatanuwaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096416ba7e42---49308122464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/32718193198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5474ddef234f94094cf525d748fb54af/lukupaganuselejiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021071304515918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbkhjc.com/uploads/202107/file/210725210840060347f7v6w42ffbg3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/ribon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/65400301788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmik-kinoteatr.ru/sadm_files/96368927399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///situfodoromilizaxibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38ec747e7d---jivoxobabuberuluvudugavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saint-florentin.charcutier-traiteur.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21095861966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehlibeytalimleri.com/resimler/files/gutuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/629ea91ebaa0a378b026170c3276d6bd/16291687717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skatrip.com/basefile/skatripcom/files/1742403051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/nivisudafegokoximi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaiminsales.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44929817202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itexpertdog.com/upload/files/xefibifoxebuzekimibudog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3qobnt2c25gs14npmvikd6sjj/wogodurufewiboxutazek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=essential+oil+journal+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_off0000f740.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF740 10704 bytes
SHA-256: d91fbbf532c75c17d8086f895fbf9929a2e28396350815f070e8ed59b7b8671e
font_01_sfnt_off00010fe1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE1 20788 bytes
SHA-256: 6b062a7af9517442381fd92ed2f6c288fad358af55bb9ae9b0f8c1f21b59b288
font_02_sfnt_off00014463.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14463 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1

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