Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ef58ce61a777d17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:02:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4574c39b7fca80a507f6afe2e02e9d19 SHA-1: 0611015a38c19740fc776dc792053c7297414223 SHA-256: 7ef58ce61a777d174b326242efc239ba55a37f8c15c76aabd12bdbb12c0f703c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. Heuristics indicate it's an image-only document designed to trick users into clicking embedded links, which point to various compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains no readable text, suggesting the primary function is to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 67 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/80685286084.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://associazionemillesogni.it/userfiles/files/pidedabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/bisakirisavokusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnvvr.ro/userfiles/file/27680773255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c938e3c962---lizajifejomojabodafoled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soflocops.org/clients/83264/File/31724756549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://an-ocn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70290768057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisao.net/files/files/33411895971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b538e3578---92597997232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/65972745535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0313aba10a---fitixepobobixag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://semihkerpiccilervesupersound.com/upload/file/refilugud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahceneryaman.net/public/content-images/files/voxikunela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a4b4ccc0c47849fec893082fda483ee/papixujimamug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velo.hu/UserFiles/file/jimabovefadisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6f2f8d794---pudanemelukejadenekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/523a7323a88b3a73509e2687abdc8db6/rusunel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toshiba-center.ru/uploads/files/lirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dfa7fdd6276089d716f3f283862e58b/ladilagaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tamilsaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaxuvetozofevazezojuwogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942744f2bf3---sikenurajudafoxobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d111be998---31362438937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=world+environment+day+speech+for+students+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_off0000ae90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE90 11156 bytes
SHA-256: a04197fc730190477933a2cc4e7fc31d66bb3faf22a9a2485a360e6760591d0f
font_01_sfnt_off0000c879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC879 13692 bytes
SHA-256: 62385566d3c87a1459f19aa857f492410ff057f35ba2c0b77dcf293f4394c01c
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA13 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1