Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7574a85c7a3acdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-08 17:05:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8a6bebbc5acf6853c2e08a56a702ca96 SHA-1: dd59919cdf9d216ba0ff08697c28102440d0ab19 SHA-256: f7574a85c7a3acdfb4040294ccd4108809dfc2d250da4a27ffc9be878ea5ee98
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to domains identified as link farms or hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content, but the heuristic firings clearly point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/sidonemodoxepigime.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/wereb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lelizijidijukipanevesixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788b5c1b9ca---rawaropogelasixixis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c76ece4246---11155173627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roeveragri.ac.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee82d75069016a7fe3935be0085df98b/63204600630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzwgjx.com/d/files/1605942908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9505a7eb7---74315071676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ug3erm3a8q6mcfdn11h2c3t7p5/20779073054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--72c7caerxx0d3a9eve.com/UserFiles/File/zebatesuxukagipoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36b74c95400e83b5b7eeb41ed64ebe2d/nijixet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91b078e070acae5fda98bc2618ef112d/xuzelokubiseguxofox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpils.com/userfiles/file/4109593944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fff4081e1a---37047077570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9467e57e9566d166c122c9123f8ab2d6/40830381156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/pizekibivilamutumameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c37cd2330f---96245001304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/4815092490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dildendilecevirievi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/tojokoxakipipazesixere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/sumofebotixuvokaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/685198775a36ccbbdf9d3807192cd1bf/54918650511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/688db29e3c8751be9a4d02d59f0b313d/jamanugupiwukovamisok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4c1c294e7---gipis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4c4199839---zugesexewudujubijowemis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/60533608038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/33553150757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=partial+screen+recorder+androidPDF 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_off0000f47b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF47B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C92 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 86cb0ff834f9ace62c6bbbb2765a897eb4a565b4ee5619718631a34e9701bd8a
font_02_sfnt_off00012411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12411 17340 bytes
SHA-256: 479f13f16570765cff53dc6771e79306108b4e6b438692014d64542430185d26