Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ff7a775c86eee05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 13:50:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 0795659d6aa1783f0abb251b5c052024 SHA-1: 974e1bb69adaffad50b5347630363ac538770a8a SHA-256: 7ff7a775c86eee05afdc1a31b2d3f2f1ab01529352298c41db26cc959284a775
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on disposable or compromised domains, a common tactic for phishing or distributing malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple links on potentially compromised CMS upload storage suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021060418042573499.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vote4dannybarry.com/clients/2/2f/2f5d4f67c16906f9b09010289963de11/File/26070165235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/58385211242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/61759835458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b9d0b0b87438750e06dca066d6c2923/jetabonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8a379dcbb---jaletapab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/22035461605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e69cbbb845f3be3986cc15434b54ca6/88513757753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/276eb79157e133b378575e08ece420d6/sebifetajeromelikuwukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisoseminatrici.it/userfiles/files/10258467783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigpictureresources.com/userfilesbigpicture/file/gelaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/xasibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b220d308f---wedolisakadanozolowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jo6nu93go3h24hr9fgdjhsjdig/sofezabudesoxaketuwakaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087853eacc4a---50944615619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/55390322273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-28/20210528100819122197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/515d5414cb24689bcc74178a9d338684/36877236501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63499af38c---36363097862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesurmakina.com/userfiles/file/49245685909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-pvc.com/upload/files/60923375955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/buxizuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tfp2o5qr1g9vas74qebdoq87pf/25093677841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=icmp+packet+typesPDF 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_off0000e5f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5F7 15984 bytes
SHA-256: 9be8a25e6654ecef3f91d172c868a25bd18861bfbc7e0f3e6b397d50effe2874
font_01_sfnt_off00010f4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012766.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12766 10232 bytes
SHA-256: 8ef3d74bbe9db40caa6f0415f45709ac5e974878ce488577783930a490d082dd