Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e473843e1cf009d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 14:22:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5e20a4c8b9034465d115fff2b3a4627f SHA-1: 2799979c61897513a1d86dd88b4ff9098eedd9c2 SHA-256: 7e473843e1cf009d39ddbe0dca29fcc50dd48c8c12d31e786a0d2f0058e06f91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of link farms designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://rebizplus.com/userfiles/file/jevez.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/62652702946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nena-artspace.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22366657391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338bbf7eb46---39874976617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartamentykunickiego.pl/architekci/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96165291335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/fekudiregomugoxetemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaktutzhit.by/uploads/files/xuwelimilelon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobaths.com/app/webroot/img/files/tafodosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614137c739118---79568989272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dawahcity.com/userfiles/file/13649980799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staractivecollection.com/resimler/site/files/8677706144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eef0ce1a54---xaxuribevaxiserisubav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614406ed67357---68181620852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.de/userfiles/files/26758538467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a68ca18e55---jawul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://embeddedhr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jataj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimwendelldesign.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noberakawuwagozewexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adriennemason.com/assets/files/53559098917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moretonassets.net/userfiles/87115990459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/lonujefesupasuretusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polishingmarblefloor.it/userfiles/files/dinifazisudilujewadil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefineart.com/assets/202109/files/20210902211016539272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sluganarodu.org/userfiles/files/21566299237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f133e35ef4---9846087361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42253546329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=rajadhiraj+book+pdf+in+gujaratiPDF 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_off0000d158.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD158 20636 bytes
SHA-256: cf5e9bb0d89fe79206151700c8cc193fbe654cc7223b01b34449bd6e1e845c25
font_01_sfnt_off0001071c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1071C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F33 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 8d33f3f4d8b22fea28c4b0002be33fc0873d6989170d56aee6fe0896a0ef9d9a