Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7a355a70441d84f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-23 05:59:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 195b2903ebe83a348eaaa70dcf7a3b10 SHA-1: 0cbb630e6064977c6079ce5bdd6ab6e8c58686c3 SHA-256: a7a355a70441d84f03ed4fc59e6b8e81974554a90289760089a2fda4e2e13ec5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of being a phishing or trojan. The file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://studioarchoggianiepartners.it/userfiles/files/zonomifiletotomuworu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a550d1b08c34c80093e49fd4f865339/93501365367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garant-fond.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/files/368454560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/gexigej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demetraproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82178501223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceylanotel.com/firma/files/14452517269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhitienvuong.com/uploads/files/76851429154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalthailand.com/images/uploads/ckfinder/files/tugidobodig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilatesmystyle.com/userfiles/files/zerufukuvebupewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsushibrea.com/uploads/files/bumesikavudanemasefewulor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datacomsystems.cz/userfiles/file/8192800434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssm1tug56kr6g5o3h1jqcu3p35/muzuxaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/43470901874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snap-drone.com/userfiles/file/bibejadumukagamutosenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaladany.hu/upload/file/6153741151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h1t-url12shio-turbo.com/contents/files/70808836949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be87312d744443aa216d2bd93fceed24/69105594798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bernendorf.ru/userfiles/file/29298513791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kp-technik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17125639760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/userfiles/files/57065019948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viktorina.ledoritulys.lt/files/97477360346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khanikango.in/file/tuzapokej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cpsguffanti.com/uploads/file/23283239722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/wewezazomuvomuwezep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noriupapildu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3236744655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=spider+man+mayhem+apkPDF 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_off0000d633.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD633 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE4A 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 6d0d2c93411b8cfb58d9d68913cd4c64304072ba6aff6c35f631832ee3fe4458
font_02_sfnt_off000105f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F2 18628 bytes
SHA-256: 094f482a203a86ed213bc45ace64f5f5f0becd5aea000cc165938f6abb00e738