Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f86fd571b9262ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-08-19 10:20:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 08483d1a45c98fe31b7c5407a947c167 SHA-1: 2a610b1af199668a599dfb1fbc6ba961be4f375b SHA-256: 7f86fd571b9262cece5d0c82cfb56d543de2b405972de4e23a4509bf5ac4fa1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+libro+mi+primer+curso+de+contabilidad PDF link annotation
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/forumuluxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bea44a43511181822bfc752483d7ce2d/bimodinajigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilieroccasion.fr/uploads/file/ditojuragula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940604664cc---22375448438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danieldesignpro.com/userfiles/worosuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.feniuniversity.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nijijol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8775b41087---7889365353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/wewejizekewafupupim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab4367f3baf---ridobiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ab17c29605399c17905bb533f2eb437/4635445843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84568385042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb2dd0ce30---96429782981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eecpowerindia.com/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89856936742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b90ad82141---332338611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/kowabola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3e11e3c4b---49301821596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corianderedmonton.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42018381698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80b843575e6fbb319dec5b1f5a11866b/xuvexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/36730022118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/merivelined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://influences-vegetales.eu/assets/Image//files/57563723971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/78250774150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/1019058426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flagrant-desir.com/userfiles/file/zinuxuvemexagisade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000db72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f389.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF389 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 7e9ea4867a066928aee86f58318941415b8a625cf89fbb9e09d2922dc72b65a2
font_02_sfnt_off00010cf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CF8 17724 bytes
SHA-256: 7a98259db8a37591a6f261edc4953da84334f8cce5607282fea529cabcf1d384