Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fe028cdad9575cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-22 23:38:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f99594833115564db453b66466ab7437 SHA-1: 04d2b40bab59108c7d82ddadb0862e06bff0152e SHA-256: 7fe028cdad9575cb409a3b14f7456a756fc29cf1391893bc7d694708af2ae2bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a 'utm_term' parameter in one URL indicates a potential phishing or SEO manipulation attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+5+download+for+android+computer PDF link annotation
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/87942656388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobhendrix-law.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fugonaxenomebudamaket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///vagivugibejemelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orsam.org.tr/paketler/ckfinder/dosyalar/files/51513144490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b1e83c69f9---57707712111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/doterilodobukagaxiluxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfreklam.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gaxonibozenukogoworaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d804f2841a9c9d4b82dfe132dc8b554a/tiloresexekukepugeteberu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamaxmotor.cz/data/dokumenty/bofadanaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysilo.com/upload/ckfinder/files/70319210574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338d2da6c21---rabedeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xlpe.net/Images_upload/files/tukaviliwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d8c12eb9f8---kubusuvovuzuvunig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsace.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nejovuwerenuzirosowaduraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/44149018954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamecoast.by/uploads/files/lijojovimavata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uangraja.com/contents/files/godizolujemodoruzapajuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marikitaberbagi.com/userfiles/file/1756890683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.com/images/upload/File/50140083731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millionsdiscount.com/mo_images/files/41364073815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex-ter.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17441301323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.s4b.nl/upload/files/puvevepog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/18757806680.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_off0000afa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7B8 14424 bytes
SHA-256: f2000c3f974c86d80c698b9ffc548a0311e35ce946ba8acee76fc315ed7a06e8
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBFE 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 485a28bb5d8dae5f34850d2c771e230876859d6a850460d17743d4a2cb548f07