Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7db346e4a6da84d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 13:41:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c77e6aea63652cdbd82e70147d6c0807 SHA-1: 279dbec9cf262cf1e70881ca4593807219391916 SHA-256: 7db346e4a6da84d62d68e3eeb44ae4314fd3abeb60d8336811524e2e6ecffd11
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous links and the heuristic findings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://latework.cz/soubory/27549883948.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://permanentnimakeup-brno.cz/userfiles/files/84286264281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7b56d9c428---77768330590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098dccf3e04f---rurisalatufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607576bdf01e0---kalimugomiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9badebb0204c6ab4ae7e692389a486e4/10621024230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160998a84bdaaa---kavodimowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a07a5a418f---94297154344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d2401b35c---93701406749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ff9b6e816---46480685667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093626f2c39d---81016187841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jcjhi3j3m4bid0hklos155ktj2/jokugufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47da9ac2e0b60be5acb0592c20997a21/14747378766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/kenulugarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/26314682494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilieroccasion.fr/uploads/file/ralawizofet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/63495255313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f3ff5a1ec---xegeleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/64029035034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b9f5687c6cf475fdcbb589e8750f71a/wesidofasezekurazubibanik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/somal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/zugadosagonofetugemifike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/xupidixigudepibumivomisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinnaduraflex.com/uploads/files/defumirejapinavujalanaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aparoeh8871us571up2kc17gg9/55464387981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=close+me+outPDF 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_off0000ee2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010640.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10640 16964 bytes
SHA-256: d22a7e127fa95c8ed31ced833d7728c2fc8a92dcc8c473d4802285ef538e7452
font_02_sfnt_off0001323f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1323F 9944 bytes
SHA-256: 04a23e261da129443b5226b0e6d35450dbea1266c0848bf43bf6d5ae5f32a035