Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7afcb6283d7a486…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:27:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 08c781c03985713ceaf7c8c6b06e310e SHA-1: eef4e31a81bc3295dc5ef6751de9cd61a307929c SHA-256: c7afcb6283d7a48630a012e420ccd3fc8d8ddab2b19e15a4524bc535f1359d3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/zowuxaweg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://terhautz.com/upload_files/files/zedigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098914850f44---lozijafukutizazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cintabogor.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/45284593270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e35e61626---zexibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boston.pl/fck_pliki/file/xipaximenutirajew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a908a01862b---20777347574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e6a91b48e---68799246119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/jalapigovupasefuwewog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26059b1689f2942fdb6c3b4558170786/narotelopumitikiminanebej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/88538866868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralgiving.com/media/userfiles/file/69151545493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847985c5aeb---rusimese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidsslot.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24943929519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbd8524361d0049e396b254a0311865d/30809464839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/144d43814096562d0b0efaa17efcabdc/sewixelino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioscoponi.eu/userfiles/files/27389302672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/38690252892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/33014038813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/povexipezukugibepefat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736f27991a1---niwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/74979668577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhk.com/files/8366534797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2ad95cf9a---92993081101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d42e03d50ea---dolizesuropazijepiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=heart+failure+guidelines+2013+pdfPDF 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_off0000e7d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D4 11112 bytes
SHA-256: bc6f0fa07c6e02648e1378cc33f48ab7b49d1de2ec700430995e14320e16f3fd
font_01_sfnt_off000101b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000119c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119C8 18700 bytes
SHA-256: f96e5ddb1306baedfef261c15f87943c81a9da44ab2b015031c1714339ad7ceb