Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e9a9b22cdb4e93a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-22 14:44:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 2d2da4c17270f0a5ad0d46db825c5f3b SHA-1: b66e3338f9625abe97edc35f22d7ce976d07ce26 SHA-256: 7e9a9b22cdb4e93a247c9961177b8eb1e6a4885ba2f84281f579a52c16df5f9b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading malware. Heuristics indicate a high probability of malicious content, and ClamAV detection confirms this assessment. The presence of numerous links on potentially compromised CMS uploads suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • 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://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7823d9f97---zerojewamodebusujaxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sintellect.ru/Repository/file/vetovirujiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/86940390703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medprobr.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e12feca163e0d808d0c3eb734f31b98e/41770986919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5cf73f499a38480e40add7950044494/76950111825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608646b8ae454---39961901700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ab5f0acdf---xuzopodegeneju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/69827144478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/46997523707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predia.cz/userfiles/file/13209256189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/fafomedaromufatom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzeptowski.pl/file/kadovedogagonunokodolow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluedevils59.com/clients/862365/File/97928436245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/28005848061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/40968181577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e6c1b227d---mukojezifosutapof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0657030d31a8f0667332aff985d6610/kikudededujebaxenotefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc4f1de7c5---56446917209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/balawumuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/xibuvalabovuguxidik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/261afad135b21c9e1a35c86206f46c60/4836191593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1b5462e37---88613960020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/januruzovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://global-brand.net/userfiles/files/bonivamabunitutujirovuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddgasul.com/userfiles/file/2591159253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=rrb+ntpc+general+intelligence+and+reasoning+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000f0ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0CE 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 8a3c5252f32b73c73905f784e9fb5e0edd0b749d4e86312b26986a71a5e63285
font_01_sfnt_off00010a57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012269.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12269 17028 bytes
SHA-256: 93e3b0f3b79543ea664d1c953f197dba9067a5308135a07473634b78955a918a