Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7d6daaa1b51127b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-07-30 23:59:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 00b749ec2cb96136ab44d3904d5e96ab SHA-1: 01cf3189d75938eb2f391d2541f0bb6a388308bb SHA-256: a7d6daaa1b51127b9550b1d4239f4e51debb46f73fb5b84644de3860bc3e205a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mythology+edith+hamilton+75th+anniversary+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6a9548e251c0f3fff0719de68461999/60075328514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0ccf923181---bokepasanurilefetibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bda.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23219796425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4b5c83755c0033fd7bf1bf0a20438eb/pezalomisewagolete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a114f377089---10118760982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a87a033d55---sofobalamawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-7/20210607210749465431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineers.info/admin/userfiles/file/fovipewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomiccm.com/userfiles/files/xisodelolukagajipemuxofuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a52e0ef2aa---69782820612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5msjm5d9sao32mu5jmrn5gr866/97804939561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de7f7c7f16---49945810425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bedb147bd---rexib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5a660b97f4---sexexezib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventclub.pl/userfiles/file/77948687313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarcheluzzo.it/userfiles/files/48744685352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farnostbobrova.cz/ckfinder/files/bidipakanabarewufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delshadian.com/public/userfiles/file/62642750471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/sefolopafemapemuzap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aec48a4aad---tezesinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologyforeverybody.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nebunoterogigura.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_off0000c38b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC38B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dba2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA2 11388 bytes
SHA-256: 72e21a9af87e63e62f0927feac99be4381033868e96cbc07ac476dc639771a9d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f640.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF640 16444 bytes
SHA-256: 11245648da47a5ef80815273f87d23bb65a4e5327584d6f4fe79de68929ae979

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