Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d8f42b57a775e74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-07-31 21:37:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2a6ffae114c3972a1ae5ca530478c77a SHA-1: 503c9c91d40e1bc62fa40bded8753feecf20b804 SHA-256: 7d8f42b57a775e7401cf3218cd31f4cca104220646c6f541fb0bc2aa34230ea0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+draw+a+unicorn+with+numbers+and+letters PDF link annotation
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0e76dd71dc---jamaroraba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123podkrovie.sk/editor_uploads/files/58995503281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60b2da1a535f0aad47eb32a5fa570d14/moromemud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pr0eltrhjt7jmlpb59ns3mhgr1/53202573589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhanh.com/files/jenirimemab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuacuontoanphat.com/upload/files/69596424889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881a5f30243---pozuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160958b21354a3---nedakexawixom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6610fdb789ed76b6f2a0ff5096b80498/nixapuxirinodedanagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4348fcb308---83205440500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d82b8ed81c---gugedosafudelipobefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowprice.com/content/xuploadimages/file/waluwuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea0ad676fd---taxigefikutisuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fmgovjelpp3j9ouoftdkllc2ph/zojelanozuzewuzufiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netflor.pl/upload/File/14772838353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linpus.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/8144024818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e94ffc2c2f3b18b45eeeb2e58b26e6ee/69465735402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.ch/upload/45497730489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bc5c73d63aecf22385d4540669c2cd4/23346438119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d353b1a3c4---67370859148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941d611ae76---fojazati.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_off0000c857.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC857 10952 bytes
SHA-256: a0379ef443fef547904b2ae591f34c1b6e4f138077650d0a15b6473052c852fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000e186.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE186 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f998.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF998 16508 bytes
SHA-256: 1a09c7fcaf3c110fd80ab555cbce9dcf667d16c43a69f45beeaff9977402a38f