Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7de5a45ed58c4ab9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:03:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4d09b70bfc2f7baf32c900cf2751d168 SHA-1: 8675c19b0396331ac2004032ea054b4da082a400 SHA-256: 7de5a45ed58c4ab908a37ec8dbcc8bde4aafc0f38b29df7b4c67d974f0c5786b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards an attack pattern involving directing users to potentially malicious content hosted externally.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/sitelupowukage.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608831f641d4d---28570213561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4494eef71078e48f143e7287ca76c8d/rilufafumudalura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/324ac64751f59a180f2c4c840b6d8c99/wexone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole-belair.com/ecole/file/moragunugof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/349306c231782884bd20c9bde4f10510/72113658560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/sutaxasozupelofevewedebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab47c8b42890e4b311a6c45656171ced/xatarugepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naves.cz/res/file/dokutopeguzawominuwadej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5iq1oek2n5l1bf950snl4lecp/jabonudaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/wijedolos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd73bb8a63---37529798924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evrokomplekt.ru/userfiles/file/29934476292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tesudaxusunarelafatak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butterfly-propertymanagement.com/userfiles/file/xuxubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broorybulldogs.com/clients/33993/File/wepufaxomitotirufevoruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gosselindesign.com/images/from_fckeditor/fichiers/57012417052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/63187774155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmbd9echfja5q429sseob0fk8f/dumezepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97e3617901---xumejuxumufubosaval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3371eef2d30105956fa308194433e5b1/68134549849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/12503903865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/16715693532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-lamps-rali.eu/files/file/42296682278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehero88vip.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/62717855956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://form4concrete.ru/pics/cont/file/nejabixapowojisina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864ad1e71bc---ribakelutebode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=enlaces+ionicos+ejemplos+pdfPDF 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_off0000d03f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD03F 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 730ad7455f2c1c74e9bb19468327b014ef90c3e4793658c9f2fd01e750eb73c9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000100be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100BE 18240 bytes
SHA-256: 6abfb398683aff2719185622df476038dcd232cca64e082c9b221d8af4889d72