Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e7a457165c35aa8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-08-25 06:02:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 4b5fdd0476d464fac0f8f3a79f4d6dd9 SHA-1: 4182bbe8c3c8bbc9dea6ea47ac7f0ed955a12e8d SHA-256: 7e7a457165c35aa8f503cdebb3dacbdccecc9a2dd42e7b5b60074437840f8399
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of urgency language further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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.
  • 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 http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/navabowove.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/zikubididanifopekezoxisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ca0646a2c---86458561546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/31261328276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44664985212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5041957a6a---78846423430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cbe6b31e2f5f514bc4ac4e4a97a77e8/kidugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonseri.org/userfiles/files/redivubaberefedupinapiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161209d42a2b18---89577610927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/81278491487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eshop-kocicinadeje.cz/files/file/43559634550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/20377821641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaktutzhit.by/uploads/files/jenijobitatosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/46330366035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/783d62af33bcc812a5ab28ddc259427c/8048968833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a4c3a6883---xonakibakonodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4a90dea3fa---93300171761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/vumexava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitvita.com/files/files/bovizupamopovitafaroso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villamishkan.com/310renonew/front/images/files/paxete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtualcharityevents.com/vce_cake/files/files/wevif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viwiliwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c4915145c487685025b9e252c2e470e/56929093995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=troubleshooting+questions+and+answers+on+networkingPDF 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_off0000ed52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED52 17444 bytes
SHA-256: da169dfc74c722658fb2e37beaae4f0a8b9546b8128f7f46f4e6eab09386335e
font_01_sfnt_off00011aca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ACA 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 88b70e43e80c788590a517b8f71bc34a304e9435b479b27db8a7ae75e273a130
font_02_sfnt_off0001340b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1340B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1