Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f9ebb6b57a19cee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:31:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 71e37a924c82bda9bb5150257085dad1 SHA-1: 5542e309e5201ef297caf24ecdea8758bef35533 SHA-256: 7f9ebb6b57a19ceee5aa0a97d73cda002ea8aa4cc13440ca4e7ac9fc738c815e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=industrial+water+cooling+system+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f7a3c2a7fc769f46f6debe16dc65d13/15127458308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futuralagoparking.eu/userfiles/files/17737772013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44144bb8dbd753dab954e7fe986d2ce2/78361748076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunjipsc.com/uploads/files/50120735669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/zojujodotorefadoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84120ef808346986c5a1a1bbd919005e/lopawaviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/lagubuxotefurutefobuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacecinella.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/45877399672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/21955412532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://escaletravel.com/userfiles/files/zozawexanejoseketewezip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abcb8f6be78---27093372630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanopena.cz/upload/file/67285890721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b78e495ba---10817668126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6bfacbaf3beddd1ba3b5c04040b12ee/sutolijenukasuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848ce3345b7---fejenotavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/tusupabowogozulaligo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41bc479de29d4d45a682a1646ca5d195/25309325358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2a6ba56097428dd1f72bdfc6b35fafc/suvuradovodapige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/90807839007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khachsanmyngoc.com/upload/files/tasiriwoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2a4a081cd---batizezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/51077876089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34450f1fe872f08a769e4402f98e4a9e/fedila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611803d22f9de---zizasediraxokopenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d122fe99d1---rufojefamodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dogandemir.av.tr/paketler/ckfinder/dosyalar/files/nunumef.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_off0000f70b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF70B 17656 bytes
SHA-256: 4214a5eaf45a305f86a702086afafbb97f8fc270b180f8f42dda3238b126e302
font_01_sfnt_off000124b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013cc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CC9 11212 bytes
SHA-256: bb24d6feeb121667e8b1e3d016fe945de38875bcf0d4ae546a0a7f5c28f0282e

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