Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cad32435a69aea6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 13:44:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 446df70518bcd3770787e5c4ae814837 SHA-1: 54bd6bea5a3d305666d1c38415359d0acc0190b0 SHA-256: 7cad32435a69aea6437abd7bdc61b8a4876cac76c920ecd568b97c95eee2dbd5
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The malformed stream length heuristic indicates potential exploit activity within the PDF structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/57498168396.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/59138568087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02065ddd45b7d37629d208a40aeacd4b/28829776890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608032b7d91a7---77281429858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074500373d85---66271973835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ec03ebe83---wabokumafowawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/waguderuxopil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mtudepgsm6sgl2oats9a64dfc1/tolugagujixonokalezizafol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fosopeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c09b2e798b---tinumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/dukebotag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ttr7q320plealeo4g4a0t9p9ef/sarirade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4459cf488---20834027440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bosch-service-center.ru/uploads/files/bizojubibovebela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8d5ce55ee1bdcc48e5d9237ced7b9f9/wewuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01cb3b0b94f2ef054fff9e7cd363f7ff/34955226948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/4616017193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/zumugobinigaxobeguzizib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/zenerorof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/wobunikumomitusezaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceacb28dca4---64558117025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c5021fded---puxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=science+fiction+and+philosophyPDF 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_off00010478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10478 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011c8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C8A 17660 bytes
SHA-256: cdc6fdebca7fccf00658c2fc22b3be04dd555c0d1cfe34c9e5c7419d3d948c32
font_02_sfnt_off00014a85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A85 10804 bytes
SHA-256: f6325c45f096a9fe7f2f321289a48bf2fbaf9bf19e9747e57d578254a1fd6ba0