Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7afcd64d3ae9f7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-09 23:51:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 10c06b51dd6997e9e2cd84ec5bf4eac5 SHA-1: 1c161ff510d84fa4288de812246e69400eabf4cc SHA-256: d7afcd64d3ae9f7eeb77436be446aa9469d50d9dc2d08ccdbfed3a70dd590753
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or unknown domains, some hosted on disposable infrastructure. The presence of numerous links, including one pointing to a compromised WordPress upload directory, strongly suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 http://veszpremkosar.hu/_user/file/62450698925.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161357c8397790---84923875056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tjqhmu4m16b6b27429oitd00h3/pedevelupomivotebunodekoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/24455827483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viermaalh.nl/Bottesteyn/Site/afbeeldingen/file/wumesiwamupopepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cottoneauto.it/userfiles/files/rutomedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hemeringen.de/ckeditor_ablage/userfiles/files/92521460454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.feniuniversity.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lorejemibubarav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a3fdb92e4f---pebusulidapan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalwonders.com/uploads/files/84897837215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.com/admin/file/97895096655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techbis.pl/files/file/deritunewalakureg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roseeskin.com/userfiles/file/20210909190340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f308308b22---2635533227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azbuka-d.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tujabuvisavuminiluposu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibshospitals.com/userfiles/file/61401171213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testplanet.nl/uploads/files/28174249832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topbuild.net/content/xuploadimages/file/50643655771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/bajazokurukupedutak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/xawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sacc-la-chaux-de-fonds.ch/fichiers/file/37008581659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hypotekaprezamestnancov.sk/res/file/32715011956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://express-service-auto.fr/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fulobizerisotixagijusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urjabatteries.in/userfiles/file/vijivivudoxabugum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f69a26788cb74950280c28d632de4fc9/77805414259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleb777.com/fck_upload/file/78053375616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=red+dead+redemptionPDF 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_off0000d06b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD06B 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 87b056776cae0cc9963b7474c1ae4dcb6acc0bf3cb328845c9adf99db677b361
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D3 17840 bytes
SHA-256: 952db279d613e0100f791b6ac932d11ee5f4f7903461b7d7e22b4cc180b22286
font_02_sfnt_off00011681.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11681 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1