Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7d0ba0a4c475b2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:09:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a0c873eb93e029e927b1561aa031a057 SHA-1: c3ff737a011ea4645a231465945cb35751da8661 SHA-256: a7d0ba0a4c475b2f42ded7de1668c311ba3400e722167384fe8ab30ec2fea3cd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are identified as compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/49099130275.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://barrospizzadb.com/uploads/files/mujufepibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benevolo.it/userfiles/files/91629311830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relaxzenter.com/uploads/files/40487464010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a644fc25fc0---70861368098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klenderbio.com/upload/files/10067089750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/kifuruparakaridobedaraxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/13443390873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/datuxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietthanhstone.com/images/news/file/gakatetejexixamam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxiluzern.ch/khurasan/userfiles/files/25586755813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/41131758577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/984f7be0903b837ef1ec253f5ed592f0/xexinumoranib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1sj0kabgvfjcst2qul4f08tjvf/49943727443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/280351134344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiahealthcaredentalcentre.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55571502646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/rebofawuluzowedom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boatmonies.com/uploads/files/vugolupawijepagimeremal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suapaiatuipelehakefamily.com/clients/80707/File/labukotogije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d7a7134030c090d0002e90c2170a9c8/vaxanokawirakenekise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fcc3fd986f0ba4c0a76ad36d6ec3758/50014150798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/462644485bdd45da189831ccbab2fa41/69787152083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/87885291054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+mix+brown+oil+paintPDF 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_off0000ef10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010727.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10727 10432 bytes
SHA-256: d33297e8ecc3ff217829e7ba3c087810c13cf213c34ed416aae3de7eed530f6d
font_02_sfnt_off00011e79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E79 17436 bytes
SHA-256: 3db582744dff647e54c44022f79a8b2912c0e67c6d18f8ab173f6ccfeb028202