Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d7f791f0e739660…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-08-11 19:47:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 04f737938766e0a0d3c2835dc8c5713c SHA-1: 26e1ab0c5659dc127bc0c13962f0e9ebd342d6c8 SHA-256: 7d7f791f0e7396607d2ed84fd95290b96ef3078b48468559a21c87d403fbe780
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further support this, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://promobryansk.ru/userfiles/files/97816511877.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/tafujixisikijito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tzounakos-insurance.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64029134402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5654db847bd83c69cd313711bd396df1/verotagaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortopolis.ar/userfiles/file/2183687534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zomamafegofuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/65337486428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srividyaastrology.com/userfiles/file/nemot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a9231bd275bd0b3e44b4d0d4a133ffd/66804400843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilegt.mn/userfiles/files/29075270589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/feladavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezastupitelstvo.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/jinobinogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.nl/userfiles/file/89836462470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.benkorner.nl/admin/library/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaximepeloxolarukutug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9bffe6ad0---sepus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stijsr.com/userfiles/file/20347231251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/xelomiromuwofubite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lom657mr7eaivbgqj4ukr7mhq1/juloboxovaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oojcc3tlmlvt7347bmhn85r2m2/salewaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1854d7d3402f7dc1ae81e1d84cfa2360/30329127769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5b093659c---45378366229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a445443fd5f---55986398285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/76812607570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.santamyoga.be/images/file/jojemiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=business+analytics+data+analysis+and+decision+making+%285th+edition%29+by+albright+and+winstonPDF 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_off0000e861.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE861 11692 bytes
SHA-256: 430dde8dd5a11afa8a2e6dab9ec109a435aaa898ae0def88ece14102d18a2177
font_01_sfnt_off0001041b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1041B 17264 bytes
SHA-256: d351b00f3aee7c8f4b161d024ff3ccf2babcc2a8027b1b1c01177fcf4732ef4e
font_02_sfnt_off00013152.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13152 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1