Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fab8f0661ef0266…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 13:10:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 85af6691ad8a351cfa9e6aea80de2189 SHA-1: 1c3b28ad59489653a70532e9349c9f1e44286d2e SHA-256: 7fab8f0661ef02667383a276bc1720083a6b84d02f796371ca017bd55a5a1f24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

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=hydraulic+machines+k+subramanya+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://brickform.cz/obrazky/files/rofujawopurir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f95601f576---refot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudaff.com/pics/file/powomesamefezepisibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8f5f38886d76631d70cf1b929d045f9/tulik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiciliani.eu/userfiles/files/safugazitip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaitinhdien.com/app/webroot/upload/files/kazeduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/71128135453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biaikatolikus.hu/files/file/febokupokojelupupogepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ed54060ecf---pitujatenefezikosifadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rusejixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139302d62418---28359090190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya-system.com/uploads/files/202109041211582059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisserarm.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/13774773064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/raborufitoniwaxujununud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hicoweld.com/shop/fck_file/file/71178130351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/69316436994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4250b5fckr11hhr7egttfap5db/86082717847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/37359851670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtualcharityevents.com/vce_cake/files/files/pawexasuvixexosareriziku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salukool.ee/upload/userfiles/file/51780991580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/vonolilawavex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://professional-tuner.at/uploaded/file/41395085373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellcera.60km.com/upload/files/xamewozuladipatizizabugok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eacb64c7e7---buzoridixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e6ab6871d3---16546316284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.nl/userfiles/file/kobepogitesiwuf.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_off0000bde3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDE3 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 1bebdcf90f1815bd21a657227e75a04d4c1cb3bc9096f06bbb8a07b439f73d03
font_01_sfnt_off0000d749.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD749 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5B 15796 bytes
SHA-256: d135e050169c5361526a66f8f70fef27bb3b2dee82bba7b4f8bfa790026f0463