Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fe4d4afb0f2318e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:25:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: a29a0e2b91c47c77546fb6fe0bebbb77 SHA-1: 5059ce881ed61389a6252cee1c354f9dfd43c4b1 SHA-256: 7fe4d4afb0f2318ea4a954c0f170835a3674dace3cafb6098afb50e1c97d223c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm detections strongly supports its role in directing users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://machinegroup.ru/img/outer/files/57122572607.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1c5425d764---kemikivomewodugalupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/54443632242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/enii67c1l2vd48k54n4d2u9l0o/zufobokoranabasub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sdplu2pju6b2mdp8i5djt8peg7/nusatapudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinemidias.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sarurori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penal-garazh.ru/files/15070872328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed3dcf92043d4850c3059c34062cf987/zikasamerufudam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983bd66fe04---37601142513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4008b8d3ebfb255fc468e64d6d5e3e75/keluvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079168093072---80297301143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c45c810fea---40357669589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/34899056295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2c946460d013ba0863221c5239fb329/71487600318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089cadfc2eff---39920794171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/77769259293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samyenngochoang.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bnr3ntbeo68bprlamkhtr2krl/zimezenasonimolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status-go.net/gfx/userfiles/files/tidebixunaletesufelixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ij3hg59hsq0hnergi2dlq40rjv/soxitatolibetebikamubitow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovechardonnayhills.com/userimages/fisivube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdef0a54352---48951775737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089608431f07---julevoferenuvumov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/trcnkerb8vj4tt91oulc871s82/ziratovuriditumatujato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/90334656883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f343f2941f---pefuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=illegal+agreement+in+indian+contract+actPDF 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_off0000e41a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE41A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC2C 17524 bytes
SHA-256: 0fce7f8c9fae09f25bccb3f953279ca033b2fda24b9d815bdcb922d99646958a
font_02_sfnt_off000129a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129A2 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 0a42f67b84d2b6f8c6467918fb3170859eba5e60796b702e483c3011960963ec