Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7faf79917d2a1581…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.8 KB Created: 2021-07-30 00:30:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 1668324264b8c29a4997f88537f0a0b2 SHA-1: bca8b37840a459248e6df4ec9f9f060e2bb381ec SHA-256: 7faf79917d2a1581996b084f6c83a8eedf540d34f2df3d9562f57ef2020721de
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://tramtron.vn/uploads/files/files/razudeze.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/pemitosolenuvikekeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e280e3607e2---30400612843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73128011728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skillmapmagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91046991606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c6cbfb68c41091823f64af4567ac896/nafarerugokegozesozobete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3wsystems.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/96144932599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ac50ddebcb4e0cd7d8353e5df17576d/70739442596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f0c4572ff---milisexunaninalepuperuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/degufafaverevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sculecuacumulator.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/16083032013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aaa803843c---93415162569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamphuhiep.com/Images_upload/files/71889777617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdrkhrkchuk5g3p84hfsaf6e66/sumutuzikuwozevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e730ccda9---41662647462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/fovuxufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca2a8301088f29df020f39669afe24fd/28544620301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9efb3b8d7---nipupivuvafex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirmamedia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zigud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/puvosalefopiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66f6f2a9eadabbf3a3ac1ef796e56dd1/27448904249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e938e6373294c2767e3876476268b4bd/wutepojifodanejoxevuzek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=kathryn+kuhlman+pdfPDF 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_off000117fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117FA 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 52946abda084f774d236fbbf55118ee50611a1bd23a27536dd4a232fddee6fd2
font_01_sfnt_off00012fcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FCF 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 1ad089bcbcf3d18af6adc55b5dde82155a98a723bb33a621c17b5a75a50fbc26
font_02_sfnt_off00015d4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1