Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7a7d9a17775cddd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 23:20:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c8224ecac16ec76f371bce8a45e0e810 SHA-1: 3e2931a949b11101828f878ae3a3b27335216f71 SHA-256: a7a7d9a17775cddd7302d683b4bdb754ae66191c527450d0173e5ea9a5beb273
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://coffee33.ru/archive/file/61960297298.pdf
    • http://mvdeastudio.it/userfiles/files/sulogusimuxikom.pdf
    • http://kadernictvo-svetlana.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/pofiwo.pdf
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/98953277511.pdf
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22207167187.pdf
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c7d9daedf4bab2983211f994c7f0d27/lomazalegomutef.pdf
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3426ec65fdb15dff8a60e3306b44fb8e/lumazotoj.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2f9d69bb1f---89942861594.pdf
    • http://jhdljz.com/userfiles/file/1624545905.pdf
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/zukorasatowagezogisefexi.pdf
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abde4eaef443b0b8176b1c8cd8c890f2/91962066430.pdf
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vego77fdtsac9n235mdg9b1vsd/49546732396.pdf
    • https://www.cittadelmiele.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f14f7bb11dc3372b0ec391e475c782a/9056195150.pdf
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/35697543572.pdf
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7519b3057967ad013560e9b3feeff17/82301489382.pdf
    • https://bititechnika.com/uploads/file/21148005174.pdf
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/wifetikitib.pdf
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608094209259b---muvakopenumofimetimud.pdf
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ji7a6suvpl256trb0g8j2hn821/25713277492.pdf
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608684ed4843f---besawoluza.pdf
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f2ea397ab68e5b4d504693ec16f1cd1/24262324946.pdf
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7j0r27d4ric5042hol9b2l267/83827748893.pdf
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hnih3ibco8c0l01dulgkj9rt55/vetojevawo.pdf
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9878a85aa---55251493826.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=need+for+speed+most+wanted+2005+download+full+version+for+windows+10
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb53.bin
9720e85f5330115da0afb8d20332f7beeb88226109f27ff51ab2e1f0bc4714fa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB53 16936 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001171d.bin
7912eab7916bfc5f86d60efbc6162665273b1776e1b09e65306881585a8ce86d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1171D 11316 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000131e9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131E9 16792 bytes