Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fa48e199e8cd111…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 22:17:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4e551b3c0c0c1c4e93f489ceb1600d74 SHA-1: ad14faceb7371e4243192aae4223f58f46865768 SHA-256: 7fa48e199e8cd1111cec5c39511a3eee711bcd920f4bac275d474a81fa89fccd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other unknown hosts, likely to download further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this phishing-like lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161402a97d9468---7689038740.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://retrievers.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3303129506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://condosworld.com/abisol1/userfiles/files/7766388563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempatpasang.com/contents/files/61106356752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrzservices.com/uploadfiles/file/poguvepamen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warehousetraining.ie/images/64206457638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36d1f82509598424108e7dfc2df51b62/komita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtarrytowndeli.com/uploads/files/11916518100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/vugokirelekejozeton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinxinhouseware.com/uploadfile/files/kokobaroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainternacional.com/userfiles/file/lororefelugame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tunguoilon.tunhua.vn/ipp/images/uploads/files/felediwobedobuwadoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skonasystems.com/userfiles/file/96851862999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruedi-leuthold.com/userfiles/files/80312197964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangnamjsc.com/upload/files/6392251397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jogamiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63155741423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medical-1669.com/userfiles/files/73592377532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141664e84dcb---27884578372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suthuytinh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/vekoxudodafexorelojebeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomax.shop/filespath/files/20210917011409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmg.lv/img/uploads/files/riluges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161348ba41685d---8233181419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/39258538945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loffoxfitness.mvwebsolution.com/userfiles/files/88776047437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=finding+dory+tamil+movie+downloadPDF 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_off0000e24d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE24D 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 1fe2dde2e5e60d9796e2392bc7c52c5afefcd4110164b9bb405b4b0c409d86dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA82 17692 bytes
SHA-256: 15b0e3d48897179bba17db9cb0cad3518967effebc8e94badcafbc2d3e6a230d
font_02_sfnt_off000127ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1