Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fe464541e52cafd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-07-30 12:24:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 9673e6fc43abb17bd1a2acee32ad6767 SHA-1: f8bf2ed907b5ee9c25856bb5a38b341507896fa6 SHA-256: 7fe464541e52cafd33a08d2bedd402e20b93d29bea0552ff2e3950dde7b79ce3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to other PDF files hosted on various domains, likely intended to lure users into downloading malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a clear attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/20434582418.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/74974953038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smith-williamssisters.com/clients/d/dd/dd6cbc7353a6ef31c13ccaa63ab862ac/File/povolijixuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/bedekotikowusuxuloko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tagumefamuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609281ffd7bc5---pekibipijabovutuwakixed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwornawodzie.pl/userfiles/file/55175428427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/suregibejewepipekutijela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///48042093478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7554656c5---90207276030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/feged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rambud.pl/uploaded/file/43169349530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/jizevab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/dafijavilulazosot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609443d351ef5---68722151300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delshadian.com/public/userfiles/file/35361156382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makeswebsites.com/clients/c/c8/c8c605999f3d8352d7bb792cf3fdb25b/File/dagexifazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://j-kowalewski.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/zesatezibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210620073528968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609846e15a87f---rozagikij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opescom-store.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/64200997863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7355a34e2203a23824e91423e067809d/69818976324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///47321323329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210527191342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=dls+21+unlimited+money+profile.datPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_007_off000156fa.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x156FA 16836 bytes
SHA-256: 200686e5cae5a04270f0e543ac38f0a4209c9c90ee8b5ee67339f7c07bdbcddb
font_00_sfnt_off0000f243.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF243 11112 bytes
SHA-256: fa1dbc6c6b311a2dbf78f733de6e92f889e958097265d46977180c7a7e73d9fb
font_01_sfnt_off00010c4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C4B 19676 bytes
SHA-256: b5a7e11342751e93910e3c0ec479b581b6c94c871e0c6642734f32b1a719c8b3
font_02_sfnt_off00013ee9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1