Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f761cf9584a02ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 22:21:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0ddc449dde7c2e4676e4da77f12158e8 SHA-1: 05a13440ab6be2e6b47300d786a883cbf54d6781 SHA-256: 7f761cf9584a02ba13223700aec3a9b2c10e6e16ccbc58d401a29da16f406810
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is part of a link farm designed to host malicious content, with one URL specifically pointing to a PDF file on a compromised WordPress upload directory. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of an attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://pizzeriagiganti.ro/imagini_ws/dalavujiji.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://podolsk-kondicionery.ru/upload_picture/file/8526302928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodlandhills.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/letugewava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdom.vn/userfiles/file/demawezelowelek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infosantiere.ro/userfiles/file/voxanevav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westfallassociates.com/documents/file/tafixixalawipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suyogmaratha.com/editorimages/file/mepisofifowew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elistaprezentow.pl/userfiles/file/tukelutonajafafupopape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142edaeb16f7---99654379267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30795917037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86i6ve5c87m66dpofi695drq26/2394372669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oa9dfjtvca83rc7lslv5imtnp5/musupobutekiparomoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51685233630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinahongji.com/d/files/67942535321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slbreakingnews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jususubasafod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijdssymposium.eu/upload/36002611190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k19msi3kmiqk93q0sgkc549v71/gosegapebuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horgaszvelem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nazibud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41774642497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cen7dias.es/userfiles/files/loberodopalixamilikab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93536827123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-esc.net/user_img/files/67329552368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a116ff21a4---4239095389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tongdaidoanhnghiep.com/app/webroot/upload/files/xuwugalesedovakagifak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hertzlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/83667906202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=debian+buster+arm64PDF 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_off0000ccd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4EF 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 715941d55da067838f87d220b8f615d1ab396a43be233f4a2ab862400f3fd09b
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD36 17220 bytes
SHA-256: a94bcab170ec6e6da14e26526abfea214790ccdce610ba9e0c21c5c8e695c0b7