Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca7f65fcee6f3c9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-08-02 11:30:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fa102e013802aeccb10a445bacb3bef9 SHA-1: 33fc8c6fba3a8ce8cc917f7089ff3e6ed1c1df21 SHA-256: ca7f65fcee6f3c9fa1da2e588267f0f1aff8db5e76f19400f365bc5a380d757b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the final destination or to leverage SEO poisoning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+good+supervision+in+social+work PDF link annotation
    • http://autoscuolauniversale.it/userfiles/files/79034936035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eia-edu.com/userfiles/file/bubizepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2h4sjn9rdjbgsviiauouqatjh2/47932258011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vukexavup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.com/file/jugotidejejinarovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images//fck/file/81474669317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/gijusotoxawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4a99c7149---18374538326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/nufimujalewomav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f19ce8730---95413344169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijnhuis-vaessen.nl/site/data/ws/files/fanoludeneju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermiradiatoriai.lt/images/files/96410999243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/jerubobuxoririrufetudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca708bb8b9---logazewaropafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osheamaloneynylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/80836578213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hin5db27cdg80cu35lk3jahin3/77686632173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinkorea.com/files/files/79130241926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://border-inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/83571503411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armandofalconi.net/userfiles/file/47143835219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/xarurujebijuxagep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/48426474587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/78291721672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7faf139103806ddbf5fe562f1aec5ba0/wibuxikolax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/339f2eff8fdb9d44b3204440de6116d1/zopokabetalez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/67069164627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0n6rt6jnqee7m8ero65oml4hfh/sixudixuba.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_off0000ed5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10573 11128 bytes
SHA-256: cfc7342eba7b5eb9e2060815ed1651676496b3bb406d940edab4a8a172481ac8
font_02_sfnt_off00011f46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F46 16636 bytes
SHA-256: 91ff9e36da6c2fa1260b9e6ebced75181fb8a5c030868a72d6b1a9ef1c021a6b