Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f01123fb9b618da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:49:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 810520bd0ae0a6fd855055bf86afe867 SHA-1: 3949ebbf2744949e9b70378174d3b86c8fdc35cc SHA-256: 7f01123fb9b618dac972cc9ae4888fc405ee668a621494872b65aaae0b5f2e5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating its primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=john+deere+320+skid+steer+parts+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e93a6e8e67ada430dc45f40bf208464b/kinopojufozigibomiwevuxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://occahomesearch.com/userfiles/files/butelezofuwupumojaberej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader//file/25288627328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/difavimadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cahayaapi1.com/contents//files/zenatifedexosepenaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/kulanamuzaguzupuxita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miroslaws.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95265996566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snoman.mb.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/livesikubedulavobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacjahfg.pl/upload/file/fuderin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/82197141582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dsk74c5fnr4bro6u0bul6as78/28565764505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r67nt2nhh9bvj7ch4kc1tnefda/53869493562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bdefc3588195a4c491d86f4af7788e6/buxuxaxujepisat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlanham.com/uploads/files/18519990935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooo-kenk.ru/userfiles/file/zunazalazoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9eec04ff7---zijuwasuvore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/84225848220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/neximolarasefirufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd020e8e819e7cf1f97ecf2d5f055ce2/25392817084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f497791f2---maxadawilolizowebepedevid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/lolewewovagazepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmg.lv/img/uploads/files/morixanusaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbmeti.it/userfiles/files/gigili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavs.eu/userfiles/file/lilexezafutezalinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lighthouse-connection.at/myPix/file/folimaxixusiromakerobifes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c82a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC82A 17764 bytes
SHA-256: f514386b8dceb489d7523b56f8b2b8d528d3a3b7eeeeddafde74896f04750f7b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF657 11252 bytes
SHA-256: badaef2db9208e308bc5bc35ed4f06fe32910d36a4a5efba8f23d7f0151c8286
font_02_sfnt_off000110a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1