Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ef80ef12601cb7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-08-15 08:54:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9e63013e3ab66c5c6f160df7d5d34725 SHA-1: a84b23d6f149f77fa16f3b3fcc2cbbb9d3a023d8 SHA-256: 7ef80ef12601cb7a6be23bd390569e8cbd99f6774822832e23d935c118a68d3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c02d99c0b---ritixalilikeguguwezixosut.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chieucoingason.vn/files/46681179581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609995512c517---25019419546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/449011b62c1b11e6f4de739200ea0539/defipakadapajuvujojaral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/gisuzunovukejababepukixut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivaldiroberto.com/img/files/mediafiles/file/konanegosase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dytac.hk/userfiles/zukapedaradekizovekiwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/24049592852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109b2a66f9f2---duwofipen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/febofebenomorapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2b44cc0fad---sotolukeliwakojuvigel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae4f33d3f1---94019427142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bda15a9ec4d7efcf7952f49652da1919/zajupuxaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://air-separation-supplier.com/d/files/vokegedop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a7a508572---884860419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bethelcommunityone.com/clients/880032/File/91029813380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e090c72de2b51df1ebfc320a851149ee/wolavuxipimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgcaregiver.org/contents/files/98207924895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4a831ef2c---vitukitosurifelarufibojaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b37d90cf8---nimurazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f246bf2b2fe---xujapov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksklinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74991060206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/jifodefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1d5b46304---10013290131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+install+the+latest+version+of+messenger+on+my+ipadPDF 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_off0000e955.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE955 18360 bytes
SHA-256: 5076ab4e409c421e1e7a9a1ea7bd6824155ad4dc856f681afb9fb3069f052889
font_01_sfnt_off000118ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013103.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13103 11200 bytes
SHA-256: d261611127c21da286f135b6a89c2ad41dcf9bc0aa9030fa0c473ef339470b8c