Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fa1dccbe628e406…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 10:37:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2fa7ebae9ecea338ee31cc869119692d SHA-1: bdae458c63b9c623af9b92b769b7d3ea2f592b0d SHA-256: 7fa1dccbe628e4065e7d3283d3be889029145626ccccb56ba4a2436ffd58f1ab
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, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or contains malicious content. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting domains. This suggests an attempt to distribute phishing content or further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fructose+for+diabetic+patients PDF link annotation
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ae445b584---54436069022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/61160309986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6b425166b61b78be7b5e35859638d0d/15574628086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/daduxilumem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/36839747289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/93185709329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lipagomumovutew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawooelcs.com/upload/userfiles/2021/06/files/210606020310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ee8d5e396---bokowibovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43cef273ad42b7d02ad02ff9d4ad10b9/72970541294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/86097603012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41d93b28fa7ef319db13233536557afa/nirituwakan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/5424233415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eafe34b5fc37464ff0f9d57e9b528dd9/50755419131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/464cce11fce6dd20090b5bb310c14c01/zamibesozilirax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38b35hkr061hs37uvj22kkifhe/62236938523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dlmk3ojlregs9467mbqqknb2m3/32196562244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curewelldiabetes.com/userfiles/file/49215533053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a75fb8a985---jifisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2565fa6f4677ad1da0c836fbcd227d9/20335199451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/lobobumoled.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_off00011da0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA0 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 890f0d7a4fcea2b5538d0b2ce126f0f53981d5a139cf0f2a9b00f9c0abef118f
font_01_sfnt_off00013658.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13658 17832 bytes
SHA-256: 46ff17ae00c442843b1ed6c26c84c258467c570e7fbfb6c6f18caf1cf43b3f14
font_02_sfnt_off0001658b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1658B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1