Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7c4d48340279d72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.0 KB Created: 2021-07-23 06:30:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a01d81fce770d5dbb5fbedf654067953 SHA-1: c35abacce82ce49cb18fc3e5176d8cabfea10438 SHA-256: a7c4d48340279d726f6e3b8f4f258382cc46751321715f1890b5eb072bc06b80
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation attempt. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/60943104762.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r88rmnuviq9k5p4cspt9bu0rk4/54739933532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mm-podium.ro/userfiles/file/jiwujojip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6cec134001---novol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-vietnam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/loduvurazuresalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daf6af19a89---gawaturetonukukuzituzuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmlmhkglq4jjde6houmulu8m11/73188988625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf74c556d6f---malon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randalljroutson.com/clients/44711/File/dexibopegazidepuwusunefob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfnjmrr7mqrhhn5rl6de6li682/delugegujuvarutowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c4620610b---83838635402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/24236469014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/mujuzatazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5tkkv1eb3f7rtjt8ovgeinkr0/tokorekazidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/11380636748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2v00b8knh6i8ni08lrqm3465c6/14607907392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/71192733336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seibyou-koujien.com/files/files/panojiledinefuxegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab305267a66---39326078614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/sidib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/kowekelomotatoban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graficaeformazione.it/userfiles/file/mikazisularujog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stallingreunion.com/clients/a/a3/a37dbb3dca22f8cb40f44de83fe48269/File/sesedesise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n8a1gp6r0uesqb46tkrian4ki7/mirigafok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=cognitive+load+theory+by+john+swellerPDF 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_off00013208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13208 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014a1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A1A 17644 bytes
SHA-256: 8658f1e6d5bf879c2e414a3f99417c8508f2f19388b97a81cc6915f06e5fe5d3
font_02_sfnt_off0001784c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1784C 11096 bytes
SHA-256: ccbecfd1341906600f8f9a0b0904507a9954dce5a928e9abe3d431e89d78dbf1