Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f861482389504bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-10-02 18:30:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1141a12a38a506eee8e6e40878d2fb8a SHA-1: a8b3441d293310127cb15cd3de95d1865d525fcb SHA-256: 7f861482389504bdc0f82f4e927861a19413c4adfa35ba548c05956486dac14f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=when+to+infuse+destiny+2
    • http://generoussecurity.com/uploads/46883389230.pdf
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/810836a4d9d86085110cbba4e06fde31/gugadujajevirokuxakebakaz.pdf
    • https://cherrychile.cl/cherry/uploads/contenido/files/pupiwevadizinejaxobij.pdf
    • http://arcstema.com/userfiles/files/23747550333.pdf
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/83592193074.pdf
    • http://donghotam.com/luutru/files/239139329.pdf
    • http://standartbio.com/fckfiles/file/fekowakagopuwina.pdf
    • https://buonoantonio.it/userfiles/file/12627658517.pdf
    • https://rheinfurth.de/userfiles/file/9291385754.pdf
    • http://ansatrans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28497529422.pdf
    • http://lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6036945023.pdf
    • http://ticketsperiodico.com/galeria/files/wulakozoxor.pdf
    • http://wakesup.org/userfiles/file/mukuwavadapudipumub.pdf
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d7a8ea9fd5---11400730082.pdf
    • https://smartcrm.cloud/upload/files/lomakikosatobev.pdf
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1614f9afd82035---78988214708.pdf
    • https://efsanepin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/17749312514.pdf
    • http://theaterbuehne-schwandorf.de/userfiles/file/61801716798.pdf
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i5l78jdvd3oe97tqvj69tk07m3/doruxowitokijom.pdf
    • https://telliogluhukuk.com/userfiles/file/pifurekorokexujipudifedob.pdf
    • https://pass-eco-energies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56913273044.pdf
    • http://happy-land.hu/editor_up/34595670305.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b1b5.bin
40ece3958c0cb35600d81cac1c190bf1a9f8033c24478a6a4834f719c250b034
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1B5 10468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c990.bin
0fbc4a44599415e6d25a78dba657ba00dba2e832819c16f724321647c8c11ab5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC990 16432 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3a9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A9 16792 bytes