Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fb5216ce5a461ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-08-04 16:31:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8cba5a19d9110acd062abbde8e785b3c SHA-1: 57627e6640bc57a32237eea5c2744336ab48ff24 SHA-256: 7fb5216ce5a461eebf0ae8196e37037afd095b0cac42b03918fe4f0ee8751bf7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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 http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af441c66c3062ca574bc63421f14f56a/fetupomogosanenalirav.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c16f96041a0ebc93f41ad839f06603d/11211408470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcvaurts09f9bcpe55cd3ndar7/81274775470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a276abbc71d---60676936654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extintoresorigen.com/images/editor/pofizepin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5edcf12a9---jawofujadunotawitij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e338703cf---lomizevelobedifefonalilud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-30/20210630104359288419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsprojekt.eu/userfiles/files/rezowivedid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/30243979909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10129635492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b54856559b20553bbe16343a687051d5/gokogisuredemaxute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f79cce3099---ruvisudopef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/10628749693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fin92193dqvoq61d71sgis61s/jutene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralahappyjourney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jupajoxajimut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3c45d00a2---31388949801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v1flturv52abbqlv435in531ns/45308919389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/16586503572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55c95523c44cd9c35db042176384abc7/juwudeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/48683528719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://romalasergroup.com/userfiles/files/64666666896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/49915323799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=multiplying+binomials+foil+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000cd7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD7E 11332 bytes
SHA-256: be98220d4d7730997af096e1824be96b586b1db1a2c97dc07481e011c43dcc54
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D3 16800 bytes
SHA-256: 457a63cc115b1e24aa03bb1d35f6106fd96cec217a78d39ef4f9d698b2e51384
font_02_sfnt_off000113f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1