Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7db05c6dbffa3f0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.2 KB Created: 2021-08-09 01:31:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: caf7826665edf29c08a444294e4aa0ce SHA-1: bd338d8f55be4ac4e27885c1237c831722d7c698 SHA-256: 7db05c6dbffa3f0b365f1fc8c7fcd31b61a8ceb29a4bb6fdae9bb7a072fdc41a
164 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. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, likely to host or redirect to malicious payloads. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aynabaji+movie+download PDF link annotation
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tua4jmtgt5u1ag7p5r2radevqk/15267857777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d06e7e0e6---bavogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8ac8064aed---17322003182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tebsc.com/clients/84181/File/94772989901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/pativosunavudakadaritigal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e053a430646---silikovalajanis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/lufolovatexasabujosebude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hifi-markt.eu/kunden/kronhardt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoforodinomemuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607789abed6f8---dumoreviliru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vssteel1999.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/41252152258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tjtoqllvsg2gjkfcslkq84s7n7/54413613717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/tumopiwefufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d514057105b---virad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31de83af46bddd681311089429eae22b/vuvosamidufaruwitosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ab9c1eca3---16610457480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11b9b9ea71553ea4d07a682a789c6586/xosekapad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibonatura.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rijunipuwatoraketu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eklyps.net/images/file/12103127667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35c1ef4b4ad53a0a309a844931ea976b/fedir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bd00212f02---nidizunetizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/19863766694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosvag.ru/img/lib/file/97685145057.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_off00011bb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000133d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133D0 10560 bytes
SHA-256: d8136af690d59bbc3c4dadc74b676537d0bc16d7794d68a915dcad5afa845eff
font_02_sfnt_off00014bd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BD7 17812 bytes
SHA-256: a066d2b734600907fb354fdb8aaee3192a1f2c93fa9b42bc9145df7789fc5820