Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7425ee186dd0879…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-07-28 02:02:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 63b3061558c11c82fb1fe98fc26f3bc7 SHA-1: 3fa926cb99d1cfb9fac9a4462e50017bca51800e SHA-256: a7425ee186dd0879fafa00b122ef4b0aff478e566f45886ad1f11486957877a0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_URGENCY_LURE' indicates the document likely uses time-sensitive language to prompt user interaction with these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fa4ae7824---18914048060.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/79708626024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/39990636191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d6757a6e9---rasifafoxomum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e686f2587dddb906fe848dea7434416/nesanilalekimazepuxinob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanthinh.vn/webroot/img/files/xepopazefaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/kudajadarow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijnhuis-vaessen.nl/site/data/ws/files/tekalaponu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832e7adda42---55272900366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bff402cca9e00ae2ad2195fa20fe762/20854533440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160981520169bd---47252977220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/537b5dd851eb22517f2cc948c651455d/bisewozuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otartufo.com/ckfinder/tartufofiles/files/82313838081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/jupumasumozodururexepiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b366b160d0467298cee1dc1342850e6/72192498279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c571244f6---35229840150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/loposubuzerewunaniwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4888568372---rejul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takemehometomatoes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/webugolunukida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varanini.pl/userfiles/file/jozutinemezosugogog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5d5bb02545d35fe1db83b8011308267/zaluzupipapiseri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a1958307537e0f004ee4eae3232bd86/52319111911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf90721ed1---4000733842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=joplin+mo+warrantsPDF 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_off0000d37d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD37D 17200 bytes
SHA-256: 4c674d88c2a92d4399dd1afafe0afaee0a4ef3cba2167e8806f8da88e3dac52f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFDD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117F4 10360 bytes
SHA-256: db246312d68b8713b18560bb99dbd38e2f34920ef3b009655bd1235d56c98400