Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7be8c39cf200fba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-30 13:29:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6b9bb1ab8cacb47ea18de80f7a03807a SHA-1: c4a174de6b2ced7c6bac6f3614bf1cae1788432c SHA-256: a7be8c39cf200fbad861a73fd8a69dd54c8c57fb203c0bb7cffb787fef575ef8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious document designed to exploit users via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0108834001632507498.pdf
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360d8b63bc9---rupevuginixegisa.pdf
    • https://sharedsynergy.com/userfiles/file/tuwemazolus.pdf
    • http://yuanda-boiler.com/d/files/7345836093.pdf
    • http://cukorbetegshop.hu/files/xefewipukiwapafaganawijo.pdf
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/divogivovulefubu.pdf
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/donoxuzaxoveve.pdf
    • https://ikuseikyokai.jp/ckmedia/files/36824570241.pdf
    • https://exam11.menapoint.com/app/webroot/upload/files/85354459204.pdf
    • https://aynispirit.nl/userfiles/file/7542275424.pdf
    • http://secretinvitation.net/images/files/25122315963.pdf
    • http://jyjjapan.jp/files/ckeditor/files/retopizewaviredafu.pdf
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/2499086589.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22181644a131aa96f5a40b20ba57aafb/85809529691.pdf
    • http://dexgerm.com/data/file/userfiles/files/82590393747.pdf
    • https://camping-du-lac-dijon.com/userfiles/fichiers/fenapa.pdf
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/gimajezewuxemodefesinuv.pdf
    • https://sofupingame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/bosetelowuva.pdf
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d92157fbd0f813462c749080de8aba5/29201491185.pdf
    • http://dongamold.com/fckeditor/upload_files/file/fijeruvoj.pdf
    • https://loppisidjupdalen.se/images/uploaded/file/poxusa.pdf
    • http://nguoigiupviec99.com/webroot/img/files/66807889537.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=krishna+the+man+and+his+philosophy+pdf+free+download
    • 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_off0000b004.bin
900c5019a2ade4758d18a9fa538afee56d5156025915ebd092f382c3cb2fbda9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB004 14408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d408.bin
1d6f376739f22e6b11ba1a138d9faa7d6e1a9a84a282ce125a0c06b44f4e8f1f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD408 10952 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed4a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4A 16792 bytes