Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7947fc393542e89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

132.2 KB Created: 2021-07-15 18:22:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b4600faad5ff27d2c49af85504c81c2d SHA-1: 9362f7a5b52eafbc8edab577864e314f58e1ddf6 SHA-256: a7947fc393542e89f40d98110f4ab3a6bd81d2f76dd94582e0fbf6021c239c0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to phishing sites or download further malware. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm detections strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9862

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=taco+bell+food+facts
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210628/file/16248281443541.pdf
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/tividetejawulize.pdf
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2547f635fd1083692cdd251d1468850d/zebus.pdf
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents//files/34005522223.pdf
    • http://angeladaniel.eu/uploads/files/91650158168.pdf
    • https://hifi-markt.eu/kunden/kronhardt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/532620741.pdf
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f89a6fad9aa73dee56d1962b7182c844/kurumoxi.pdf
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6e638d687---49375106661.pdf
    • https://acavacecio.it/userfiles/files/vowogikir.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837c6f9961d---23825875423.pdf
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91fc3008df2c446dcdc40d7aedbcdc70/6063456151.pdf
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fo340falfm6u8i2hmc6cgel1iq/1720494147.pdf
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7afb83b324---raniram.pdf
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/99405768239.pdf
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s4au36tvbcq86rpqlt81nosbo6/31987852230.pdf
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c0e6639ec---29122827337.pdf
    • http://kezmosas.hu/files/file/7336172759.pdf
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d04613a1e---molusep.pdf
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160725591328ec---netenofakexapuvupolu.pdf
    • http://hookmyweddingup.net/clients/73542/File/majobanixova.pdf
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d750f98e42562f6aefa3c949e7d71470/vuvamonapebusiw.pdf
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/kulipujotalododikofada.pdf
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aoe40qit65moo2frmcq2s9d3g8/mifivovisale.pdf
    • http://classtool.info/upload/files/53035624021.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001896a.bin
462108ea305339c01f7faf114b6b8c88f8db23c6be8176c5f5f3fef520bb8028
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1896A 5872 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00019f40.bin
1521afd73dcb0ae983f46873a1fc3835a6e6fed370db9e2128553bb1652c8f3c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19F40 20268 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001d34c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D34C 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001eb63.bin
9e926cbc4f48fd5b66bcb0eb420600dd0c24d69ae882caef0f3735c4b1e8fbca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EB63 10276 bytes