Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7a59ecc98fadc96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:06:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f7428715461924df95308ca14b242ef0 SHA-1: d5fa456f111ee3b72af2b5e62a818300d3fab5ae SHA-256: d7a59ecc98fadc96b76e731f41cdb3a717e129d40d5c28bcd664b77c81490f3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and potentially malicious PDF files. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests an effort to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.nuyew.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efcfa84576fc5ecf44f5ea4ca2b99486/fogifofutizosesukomud.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/71999870077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drthchowdary.net/userfiles/file/21261952548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612483ce31cdb---rojupogexebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a499ec53733fe276a091203d6d4cb4b/zemivaxopikato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d78f14002---15712306243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcsiprojectracker.com/userfiles/files/9127992128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d22c2c3a22---wevezipovemuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cced1917f9e---bilerazigatabebuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ce980612d---66577212558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c67c2af78e---gabexibowisinadobixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/turokumuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/buwujexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/vozabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/rakikirawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081441272832---80497092767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0da31ec943---48927105426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superpart.com/files/95831845520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tandprotheses.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62325956478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/52064471532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817bb12c2dd---tofumiwevixufimijinapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7780292fc6ef123579a02b7813ced66/128237091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misterholidaysanprisco.it/userfiles/files/jagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/pinunerobufolinawimapipok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=physical+science+chapter+12+test+answer+keyPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46ae63840d29012a10fe389ee412b1fd/25440944682.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_off0000ca02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA02 17224 bytes
SHA-256: e6e1c6bbe271f4f3f4dbb98b766c3cea11adf86ed55e81adbcdd24a9858d8996
font_01_sfnt_off0000f628.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF628 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 8d4db26ff8ffb996278d806c25865e0f5cdf19ab7431137f44cb929c0c1fc1b1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1