Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f484a9168edff08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 04:13:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ae21a2699f10bc54df32b4393fa7a067 SHA-1: 6f36726f177011f0cd198c7048eb89c9b2683ac3 SHA-256: 7f484a9168edff08a1d6d2715f0374c5ee82e5d63899f7b6930f92d8a9f7c819
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting URLs points towards an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://gtnet-engine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xupos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://0930actress.com/files/files/tokapivatebipan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e5b4dea84c0f5a8f93337e77231a0a1/44947508695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/9807431036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9aeec7176---18085528881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609426cf4e0ff---nufinebatelajanivovenoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021529136371319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/88629096400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/muzowukiloxupiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/80145181566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/binofetibolevazizadarena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/wajukedixuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/fekosabejig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608293df6dbb1---36741571024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/60817887594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087038ad5a83---kobizedokufatopukedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g219p3hjficu7of9a7ptaj2i6/wijedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/9183490763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/nemeruguvinevif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885da81f316---fuxixekulonugina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5acec298ff84e9dce2f1c14620bb5af3/83701681686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f84c966903b3cf30524fc0e7c5b205dd/57326182678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7894145cad---55436951393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=ls+2125+brother+manualPDF 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_off0000de3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f64e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF64E 17600 bytes
SHA-256: bc82089585a2c0a14f5c60f678d5a4d0e2f93cf194cd6a0c84e147a2ea62bef7
font_02_sfnt_off000123b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B8 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 75fdf497c510bede0a8ee150794e291e23f88b1feb0ba318d778e6f0ca76927f