Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fc0fa1498f72e5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-08-21 19:15:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d0d46a54ed65a4c5e203e01da0a1cda4 SHA-1: b6b815d9314af819c1b4ebb4ffd856cfedc9ae32 SHA-256: 7fc0fa1498f72e5ddeb1bee376d908dd8c6b5db6f6bcfeccda5dc9777e90b43b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely attempt to redirect users to external, untrusted sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+diagnosis+code+for+preventive+care PDF link annotation
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3de4111b5821d1eb024fa9af25f346c/75991110710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhphatkorea.com/webroot/img/files/29667723086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mme0r0bvvjufu504g301r3pop3/77898893879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609876b4dcf9c---defesomana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/91275379620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuolascifondocortinadolomiti.it/userfiles/files/99407998973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5695ec2b2f---68399959844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d78bbff3f---30443156202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gs883vnf67celdrc5noh21fobc/43463900202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iog8ls0e9l7ik9iptfaf8kh951/juzelejidevuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123podkrovie.sk/editor_uploads/files/95608681153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88412284288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/lefubosexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saeronbio.com/userData/board/file/83264769721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4006a5f10aa78d45cbf239f5c42d6ff1/gizudunelasinovawar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a581bccdf---45360174883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visit-pune.com/userfiles/file/39085356213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sviongmp1pjsnm6t158l7bf2m2/dobigezafamegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/mozemibajifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/tapuzemuwajixawegodubule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/nusizuworawiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f91552843e08a81a6143e309e06c0af4/13771992689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/sivuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e7eaf2d4f7---kujovofaxovimeg.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_off0000f210.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF210 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 6b4ae08033b9d055595c86ff097875a95f1cdc1e03c08e2c2cb85b9fc32814f0
font_01_sfnt_off00010b19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B19 16736 bytes
SHA-256: 6e09a82bdd950a17525b72168200b10c8c4b4510cb639a3de49131fb5089b93b
font_02_sfnt_off000136a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1