Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7c35c2f0a7fc931…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-07-29 09:19:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: caa9b52a99e5efa3e2aaf9caae4dbab1 SHA-1: ec591d281502003a03204e51923f42ea2241bbdf SHA-256: a7c35c2f0a7fc93143f03d0cd338234403264cace8d255b6c6e968fe92c6ecad
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading malicious files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of numerous URLs hosted on potentially compromised CMS uploads suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/26958753665.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/18594065842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaziogluenerji.com/images_upload/files/71859318851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meandnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4118423132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a79b77ef58---34920231144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a387e1ef94f---60309575147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb1bead81d---dowumiporubinusix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0df44704a01f66db77d673e4c8168e21/7885150586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ddc81b0ea---1369088292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/sagadakamos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7r7mcm2mrpca9kc4nksls9p03/puvexagise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkihale.com/userfiles/file/1289569865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/xonisopomoxaxobirik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50f150e3b03227a0f61a62f8963c1c94/vesexupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-5/20210505095937785064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/30982496347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/revefadirasewegal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logtech.cz/foto/Image/file/35984123814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e06d71af1fcca1fc4d7f8f7e1db43b76/39352586948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdc7364c5b---rifigigeguxewasazumes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c491418b20b---xapote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fzclicks.com/demo/files/editor/file/50739436926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20tq0bfepmi6jn58tk0ct7f01k/94940160400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=licence+code+for+easeus+partition+masterPDF 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_off00010307.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10307 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B19 17472 bytes
SHA-256: c858d04471a0279c240b0b13472c21619966d76791d1327e76ddf7e0b7521f6e
font_02_sfnt_off000147e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147E5 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 9b23e334dd4534fb99b101f991bb4533e8ac3b7fc1b3dcbfab2528ebf0dbce6b