Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7daf946d80fb00b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-06-10 08:26:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: a9b143798f33b13096a1919a0e352669 SHA-1: fa6fe9a555ee22a0af9a35ba2d11b88eb4e5f363 SHA-256: a7daf946d80fb00b6776c458b00ea04dee132d3ea12377516501ec609e43bad4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dampened+arterial+line+waveform PDF link annotation
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/470594cc35b9382c314459e0ab84d5a4/majafosimunojupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/37628443092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1aacfc6613---1860514027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0136k2jccdc18hcri8qv70h530/92359021129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/91223899114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccf7c186c16291a2eb5b2fdaeeffe3ff/94778467416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160923f65a5e35---42302114750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/urbmd6654r02voo64k8csrvamj/33368402590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d205fb49c8---74705074393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882ac49ede8---mesetukumifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/futonalanepuwifovipagana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarlampa.ru/upload_picture/5784973317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ucctmjear9o58r3d2lhn0t415v/jeginukojorixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076de2702365---42241720361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/bafutigavuwokura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/69304099764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d49d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD49D 5160 bytes
SHA-256: 9d9e53106522d85f2c4c0ae92ce81a99b9b39d8e5755182268563c7fb0e48572
font_01_sfnt_off0000e633.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE633 10500 bytes
SHA-256: b16696bb30b4a892ee424af85dacd206e469d501530dd7ac36fefaec29151091