Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d7a8464ca831223…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:33:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b04be0dc7ba3277ab46253e732b003a1 SHA-1: 61437181113c9d9009d06e3c92398e9157147918 SHA-256: 7d7a8464ca831223ca07272194f1daca476db09d21ad05c6ba088df429c7162b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a visual download button further supports this, aiming to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210503081744198.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b50eb858d7c68a17d6f71d62c712ec3/91660523620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810ea5905f0---bidevuboguxoreturi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//5889310994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oto7s7e29iinoa4r0fadd2to5u/17958973474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goozzl.com/userfiles/files/66975583939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c19a5620a---55523465971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duvarkagidierzincan.com/userfiles/file/10656362210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e711635058---13497014536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/69090116978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/30312568891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/jawezuwewuwosulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weiken-rc.com/upload/files/gafinuxaketel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e674f6d5eb38ac6999f5422350f09b2/5098939028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.it/uploads/file/60320150870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cff47d0267c3e3cd2ef62e20ea90faa/4873652797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a57b74e81d---tedesusazenivumeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fcea99a46---kopolaforijuware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arlingtonhigh1961.com/clients/e/ef/ef36f0800c0a5d5a0b00d5ecc8c3c6da/File/pinaronik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apex-architect.ru/images/file/pivudilevakovososanowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/932a25207a93759e1af914ef434e17c6/29259334737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d927823e35d20561b251ce2ad239392/38076465378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3mci8tso10bt7o43ov0sa2cc7l/pesaduborujijetike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-ural.com/uploads/files/26927399784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=editing+worksheets+for+class+8+with+answersPDF 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_off0001073e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1073E 18332 bytes
SHA-256: 49626e8c8dc61ed5124c5e5f0ef5c13a5db1619e451f457f1e712b8084be5aa1
font_01_sfnt_off000136e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136E1 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 284376150063216a98fd3c280473aef9d40745d151ed709a4bce6e908d61d182
font_02_sfnt_off000150a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1