Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7ab628e55792a86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-10-03 02:45:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: afca00e4b51929b30f890caa4b610fc5 SHA-1: 99735d58fad779823a1af2b5923951f047c39491 SHA-256: d7ab628e55792a863ce68afc82b746f6c4eea3fb9419188453a9bf0018cdf82b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cat+with+6+paws PDF link annotation
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea175b662b1a1a0c11c05602a8f394a4/15382233123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151afb8d2a3c---mitapisaxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://positiveforce.in/uploads/files/14255863611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitpuertorico.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48218651795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/75296225742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pacemakerpressintl.com/uploads/assets/file/luvijepexukit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142571ca609a---xevuviso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/981addd4928cff7a901ab18e9473adc1/wotuvefurujozajevovuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83b5ab0bb61e9c15d69a89c9f3a3b0af/gavelabakezetija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiyi-art.com/userfiles/file/99538293946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312d9412410---98573793540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silverspringabw.com/uploads/files/8960549605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.poolsrus.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48920002032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electric-kernbichler.at/24108009816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/2083351729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonyprins.nl/images/uploads/file/24237491924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyccenter.com/images/Upload/file/5363797418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venus-forever.com/image/files/gilojokidejasinaguzobako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/124e7050fc74dab8177ffdf8cd538731/43450924621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmleadmanagement.com/userfiles/files/fodabepakuxugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambres-hotes-aube-bleue.fr/userfiles/file/puborirawenebam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/45630066155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/jifowepomegobagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anneadamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fujowodexuliguxozogebanag.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_off0000b3d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3D1 15448 bytes
SHA-256: 07a9bf5cda55f2e45f5064d5518e1097b722d05e1b3c08ed178d65080461237a
font_01_sfnt_off0000db11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB11 10132 bytes
SHA-256: cf4bc8e9fb248c8a74dadfb5ddf07cf134de2733ebd7ea7f5bc1c70fb92856b8
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1