Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7f3ad4cf1f32260…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 03:57:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 112102b915e3c59f54ea01b851ad1a84 SHA-1: 35aba2974208d9c34ec6931ed5aeafb692b10e55 SHA-256: a7f3ad4cf1f32260d0e27dd056fb2988af568a388ab62e920bf4d81350e40b0b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories. This indicates a likely attempt to redirect the user to malicious content or download a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://kurdumovldpr.ru/uploads/files/22096212081.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fijiembajak.com/uploads/ck_uploads/files/22852995163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/38909851096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/13831835483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/64427836592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/659dd7b694590edae3ffde462f5255c4/mumavud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/55333045002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5382767472aefa9f6c0af971770f1f84/pajajazapurasap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurumakaitori-one.com/js/upload/files/14034733317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/541632f5b8709cfddab2276fa9543cd4/gomewan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0iivcn6th7e3ganto819q8aup/murinizisodededul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab85bc84cc1---45039435973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a352005a228---sesolefageji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132d6ed64272---55901320581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metall-press.ru/files/73033957374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a95f7df7ae---60989830886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolemontagna.it/userfiles/files/88243861813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ce9b29f54---tituwewozepetusesewab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82513de0aa5b6c3596344c657ba2f571/77488497991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wajl.net/img/file/2021729151812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f57f58be817dcd9d4c57297fbf3bbdf7/zupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seksdagen.nl/userfiles/file/nasisakuxuseloji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arablift.net/userfiles/file/28776721706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profesa.net/userFilesfile/maruvemedisomevofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=powerful+verbs+worksheet+for+grade+2PDF 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_off0000e182.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE182 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 8b186e0389c43502789a38b0e6a4f870c11340242e9c6d60eeb58076b68bd1d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB56 17640 bytes
SHA-256: 2d88e78cedeef6f4dc020d12befa6327e58b624592d07116cabe927a231d2efb
font_02_sfnt_off000128d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1