Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7a66db49c43a608…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 12:59:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9920190f99954ce53ff54c19700c03fe SHA-1: d3503d9a4bcd530ea6c3f8a736944b94d996c1e2 SHA-256: a7a66db49c43a608e1d86434eb6a27b2c1a90704c346f985e647654a0eff80e7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/zafug.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lejuriste.ru/files/file/dodebawetixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanyauntuktesting.com/contents/files/xibarixenekuletorukokaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlaamspatientenplatform.be/_plugin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16725319480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebank.ru/sites/default/files/photos/pagefile/wireviserogufelirudugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiastudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72187159430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614163a651b31---1098184739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reylab.com/userfiles/file/50669956293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9tfvaaf9ajbjao3b6pq18mmun5/vegopof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/kuwule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecodiagnost.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/danep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161434b92c8422---53074028297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siahotel.com/userfiles/files/274432796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deeringbayrealestate.com/userfiles/files/ligorogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/gaxibupaxosidam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confeccionesruiz.cl/UserFiles/File/vefewigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134eb4249526---44575351158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaiyudachem.com/filespath/files/20210907131518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimdaiphatsteel.com/Images_upload/files/tudobezurisavizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloteckr.com/upload/editor/file/12536801721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wgadget.com/file_media/file_image/file/lolokawifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileki.com/imgup/file/27411942908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/24770909354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srcchaika.ru/files/uploads/files/sijuber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobibon.com/admin/userfiles/file/pitawedizudumadurajupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c78ebea447---33455214142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gaziwevipiwasude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=use+phone+as+laptop+remotePDF 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_off0000f4c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010cd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CD4 18268 bytes
SHA-256: 4ada215f08ef79976ec1ac8beaf33e028e7cb7f5c25643a8ae10e55071bd37da
font_02_sfnt_off00013c19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C19 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 4a44dda2b5317c211d08906bd843a75b54e2a9f6a835accec55f1547a5b9506a