Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f08081de5a9e0a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 22:02:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 87ee394d1060fa7549b4dcd5b0e39564 SHA-1: 5fb92b586f3425a9d6830fa1c0e6d5ea0982b899 SHA-256: 7f08081de5a9e0a7ff6bd5fc845ba4c35c224a1d4c8039c496d43038ebdc36f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute phishing lures or further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the extensive use of external links points towards a social engineering or exploitation-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 https://gegeny.hu/uploads/file/9571221416.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2ead64627---45385472925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jfgc3i9mtqdn8ggh3hd3jgrqu/73990316826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/63606260760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/tavutatolodomed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0caa7f106922370ca47057583099d8df/95779429607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3n8pamj169ufb05rllm2fq7bdc/zasorigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephpowellfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/04/04c15d356d3082020e114f8c0300f46e/File/91914881484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhgha68o3vspu9c63bo92s7ib7/vujojuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tl-systems.hu/files/files/55737478297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fntooovfs3ji81b2jk483n1oj1/jifigusovofupagotiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703b35c46c7---51855060749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097170d6e755---wovevokaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hhp6dvtcl47l2elkued8gt8dr4/8958593934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609747c01ca63---zuwenozopikalozuxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4r12gksmnmmesnoth256hbh4i6/lasafeluwafelebenuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a00bf6eea7---gedopotikapedim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19r46ng9s2khdq00b6afbvee1i/85043535977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803ee85269b---zosavov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipublichouse.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30207804790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/digijoder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0e603399b---lekuwomedawid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=spooky+haunted+housePDF 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_off0000f7f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7F4 10632 bytes
SHA-256: d17e86e1620b11dc2fede2b1c0f4f84d4391d89ad2b26b2789290e53b8254b7c
font_01_sfnt_off00011048.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11048 17356 bytes
SHA-256: 6adb4ce6a6023343ea6ded414244606a4c174db2116a49684ecb0ab0162baeab
font_02_sfnt_off00013db2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DB2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1