Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7a96aaae68026f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-08-03 02:49:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7bd57ec0f6a1e8044ca2a56ea7b55048 SHA-1: 31aeb9d8796d4593665e6789577dfd9ab354d051 SHA-256: a7a96aaae68026f69671616f992b0e5eb2dd6941c5bd15c90e871689295a0513
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves exploiting user trust through a seemingly legitimate document to redirect them to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sumas+y+restas+con+llevadas+4+primaria+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9042564d95eca10b97b53354a90baaa/kozatolikuzitixojuruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gitedu.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doterisikoliga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpkgoodframeupvc.com/userfiles/files/99708140844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd84c4bc0b2---37357809001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/42306399718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okna-kursk.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/roromiruzedasodexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tykhestudiodesigns.com/clients/7/73/7311521ca682816632878891c231d107/File/togis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c9677ec91---gaketarekamixepikur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6968b6542e637c166500f970a51a10b1/zewafidodexiwowoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fb1f1d20f933fb82d8f86a07b6e0d1d/raboleturavixavetegida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/54263349873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/447448a0cb9a854ede59212724ab033b/xinofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/57684902920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanedantoptan.com/upload/files/63563708426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuvazaxasuxomexibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/21694051746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06046b54ea2f41606f8ddd278d342420/juxalokubebumewaxufesox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qid2p8f48m52el9up10nolp029/40776794579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/82158724473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d2088aa86---kavega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb6ca9a785e---ziwapixizekomusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthodoxvaidikasanghom.org/userfiles/file/nalepumixikixekepibil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b57d116e2f---15061594350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tokyomagic.jp/images/library/File/jegazotibajad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f1ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1ED 18136 bytes
SHA-256: 162342d23b2bb0507293ca314b6ec2aad5e42d74057b41d6b092c36c159a7f1b
font_01_sfnt_off00012005.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12005 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001381c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1381C 11212 bytes
SHA-256: d9cafd6cfb1b4a4a63ca2c7fba68d26c60fc3019291c74e59403cbe86e7b19fb