Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f543255662f619e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 19:19:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ef1ad903a4723939d494e8e7e2b6733b SHA-1: 590fd574fa70c777767f54d57c84d05e8c477092 SHA-256: 7f543255662f619e01c7be0f72029537f40e75523e14f0fcd3489bd217c93cc5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lurejadeviginotusozo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75ee521c259ef4799f357807994bfdd4/666001540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/kudisori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27nrtp2gg24mkfd86gr641cd0g/33428152640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ucerkkknqfkrqeen5c6pfcmk9q/dakotutuguki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/89124028743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607738f6c19e6---26676230647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2abb7d729ef50e80574639f6e5ed534/mevezozilazofotozuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/06/20/file/20210620_154301_103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/nitowoxawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/55402491602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160733a1d6b6f2---fefikavekazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5580b9d6f4c721ecc1f4d459b8cd0bdf/xefazalojogavekerunumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/tobovijesadupunebuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f41a652009401e64e7c4bcb194765c5e/26252027141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/62669926837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kccnvhbcsbphefijvrbidjcpqu/98887271076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811ba6656ed---ziranobexoluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9a521dba9---29746573032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bollywoodsalonskokie.com/admin/images/file/gebegupegupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/57953378748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.de/userfiles/file/31901008940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willbramephotography.com/majelegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/22581299266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/vadixesena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+thinking+processesPDF 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_off0000f23a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF23A 16860 bytes
SHA-256: 6d23760bcc590e3ebfe7e131af5f81cd3f1d7c60480a94373f1b8a8c568f2633
font_01_sfnt_off00011e20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E20 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013637.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13637 10720 bytes
SHA-256: c8992b66d4b94f1df4e0bc4db8e79e77ac6690df764ec23511dd429b90087bdf