Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f0d0dcaaa6d7ac0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:08:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 784a097ce00aea6bf4df621a0c640de1 SHA-1: 05de60f4f54257e1e3a0397478fa465c5b1f3743 SHA-256: 7f0d0dcaaa6d7ac079d7c806292f4508ba850802dbfd432e335c5cf19063383c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or contains malicious content. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous unknown URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32d3683709---gibikudanuda.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbanafwvcftiqfecrg2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/31476469275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/950ce50ba24168b09b3281ed5d416c3a/lizezimenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/12815186853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608844e822cf1---81614524983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8u4jvdd0ps8dgejd3bk33lf6v3/56174067435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmnavarra.es/ckeditor/files/97443017161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/16359865013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deaprogettazioni.it/userfiles/files/22921116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.ru/resimler/files/36186439320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiampelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63153a79673df3ed9919925cf0dbdee1/galeked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pb7t9q7j9feomm0gbtmlkmpft0/80374861579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25244847733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/459656050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3cf59e9ef---90401878722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/77484799976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9331b11861d1a90ca901da819c38a62c/tuxakufab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/70819075746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04982d91bc06427699fb66d31e9fda14/74225157188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/63891048190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b0hqa7spugmp9cdd0v693o8f3/bobapojerajidufesuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladekoservis.ru/files/53322463230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munord.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb8e6de543af30b7b205b506151279e2/37036998648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57d27a6204c0f784c0c7574cf41c2d98/16929255675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simon-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9367707965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=first+five+year+plan+of+bhutan+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_off0000d4f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F8 17860 bytes
SHA-256: 53bbe7238a5704945d3a98bfda3403ad90f1fc4d60f8f7e58c032f3171de8541
font_01_sfnt_off0001038a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1038A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ba1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BA1 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 3c8aa0e5107d7ed88ed7e7b1ca1812f5d740b6b1ab024f38e6064967ff8d2386