Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cfa7575a9fd0ba4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-08-19 13:38:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e017d51e495a1b1aa709e6a4684ada66 SHA-1: a361c5985e75b2a54fadc3272a87d92f691701b0 SHA-256: 7cfa7575a9fd0ba4b8af621d31d3e2e033cd796579eaa272126cfcbb363e5c41
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised websites, some of which are hosted on disposable domains or utilize UTM parameters for tracking. The presence of multiple external URIs and links to WordPress upload directories suggests it is designed to lead users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=al+quran+al+kareem+by+karya+bestari PDF link annotation
    • http://domusanna.it/userfiles/files/46223919363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704f9e7e255---wemadivetipifobefunaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/770004c3248f84366bb28a99a6efb766/85437680038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/rozajed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8859c96463e82a017c16b3f20ddca74/jeraroresumulamumek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flirdining.com/uploads/files/68683119681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/rotozujewanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073690f7da81---13669716953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af47fa2d03---44639721770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608737fa1db72---61882589541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5270681884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c67d64f1d---35300153900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petukmahaaaraj.com/userfiles/file/pajewawuxuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bec26a4df56516241818736926d5fa60/savitopavedixuvixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1889846b04---fukezirir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b99744c2d3---zekekowatogepilixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficimm.fr/userfiles/files/59459963231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4add55ab31---34008370045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a71nurgd1cptbfh3i1dkst7kf3/xeretukiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lampbnch1ij2b197tq5vusquu2/rorozimopiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772fe3ebfd0---21370850971.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_off0000b9ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9EF 16476 bytes
SHA-256: faf81c3349abd890fc2cd94d5d17c370aa72b27ab8c6b6335cb0c409b375d0a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fccd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCD 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 511d3d65bf91b1d76efdbe986d847112c9cb0c7faed5c51da282d7e0679f94ac