Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7086ae428ebdf47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:47:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ea9c8f567f58826a6b2badffc3ef2f28 SHA-1: b6e153d002d24dee703fba28ccf2ac8eb0d257ac SHA-256: a7086ae428ebdf47f95f93ba7bd8539ec0ea5b73def6ea629ff3f23d14671ea9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of techniques used to lure victims into visiting malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=clinical+pharmacology+for+medical+students+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69lg8bcs4q0t3507jp2sal677g/42684379041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cde4e6205e6acabfd8de7ef568919d6c/1708272088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/reburejadosojiwipusuger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quranday.org/userfiles/file/7707811400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/8768486156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldazegliotorino.com/userfiles/files/78264257588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cowmoo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20596461158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/daxudakuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0da6d818614c1b482fb5b722b60cac9a/vunububufebubukesatifepif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/jipizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2950edafd434287d0dd2267448ce54fb/76302534464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2aa0e265c---noxevulaxiviginisazula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuxowitix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/322729b06593879c76115ba74bc10de7/21090403299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48e844ddc241697bb3f02f079bbe2560/99925350658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgaspcsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/redakagege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anup.bo/images/files/30299338386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78a9c17f95---53109810652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvirne88.com/clients/71477/File/lixadimufadabafegemikizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca0432cf6f---59426212097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/xedakotaginugigegelif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/54565308205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phelieuviethung.vn/upload/files/sodabakakudipizabebuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/588dff628c1e9f2fa8c19444d0ac6f3c/wekoxotuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamant-x.sk/UserFiles/file/xojexo.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_off0000df9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF9F 17344 bytes
SHA-256: cf29fc04fa47e9b205ba148d09f9c5234e6b58a3defa28c961ac65ab68d5fda2
font_01_sfnt_off00010ca3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA3 11312 bytes
SHA-256: a51ad70be76eb6036112313aa0b61666006e346bda1baf79aafe581764dfb011
font_02_sfnt_off000126e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1