Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7e74bbcbc530428…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:59:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: df7c125524308d130e33b4d32fab86d2 SHA-1: 46e771277ca141f0c353425e3296f1473349aff4 SHA-256: a7e74bbcbc53042807a1cac145a8ea818c13c65b52327723651da1896da8c20f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 http://kccmaul.com/files/files/88815305416.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ede9526f9e3---buxabefefezipuroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtamgiasuhcmmq.com/uplaod/quangtri/files/fogir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/49826664947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/34491875912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/xirivupexekidawawute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarcheluzzo.it/userfiles/files/piwizazukepafujilimapev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/najixenumekidagarababo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-kcc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/volasotabepibejisol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9570cc2817bb47d351c906bb998866b/73170148333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sebadikusopodalivofufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071eb075b43c---zoputikekedutipasisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffcc5ffb66d360906c6d4a1528f9ebe3/fepaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac299985571b0cf128f32b90902f3190/xazewexoxipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be12395b19---dutalotifuwumepita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legyenegyjonapod.hu/userfiles/files/wizamunitireba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce937f1821fbc2547b34bb4af74f7acd/deropapagujifadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f65570701---lapedojiruvibubexag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artpolyclinic.com/file/files/29849282457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/15151289177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af72323820d---51835619494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaness-sens.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98295247277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=biology+corner+photosynthesis+worksheet+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000bacc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBACC 16848 bytes
SHA-256: 0ef9eb76046ca16f17ddf7d8803faedc04d436f29fb419c1bf5244f2d6828bec
font_01_sfnt_off0000e631.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE631 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE48 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 94e77e4f2eb5370e4118e1f302a6393bc03445027928b3a6485b047ae8b2f6fd