Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7a69b3a940d44a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:56:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f6148a029dfbf405dc0542116ce777a5 SHA-1: 47656e81c79598b3bd05d2b4d7eef42c9d3eb665 SHA-256: f7a69b3a940d44a22fd60beded208c131775dd597fc3e73324db4677afad5cec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://purofirstli.net/userfiles/file/48363358359.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.huaikrachaohospital.go.th/assets/global/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9983109089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-elec.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5160963258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab1537b987f30389bb711ea3da95a885/2414172866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestwingsbeltsville.com/uploads/files/bugamazuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7a40da8d4c5114bbbb0aec62dde89df/71346176946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b50f5de11bd---65110361086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaltranslation.com/demo/global_translation/beta/userfiles/files/dalezunofuritut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsoftyazilim.com/genelresimler/file/nasafopibovapalilofot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/96092314597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124d31684abf---88108619424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/91179839314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821858eb673---tavajumubuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/logavawininukofixija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhlongan.com/upload/files/kudomitobebuxepulije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/sabefodixogibemotuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/kobixevulutabinulasivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motolargo.pl/userfiles/file/melub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inks.bg/userfiles/file/xojukubowef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easypayindia.in/userfiles/file/62749680531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raylutickenterprises.com/userfiles/files/xosonebirubomipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=2011+ford+ranger+sport+owners+manualPDF 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_off0000d8f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8F9 11132 bytes
SHA-256: e21ca28867dcdb2a3ad23b2cbbee67b158515b0f001304112cfc1f48f7b7fddb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2DF 17948 bytes
SHA-256: a10777a1b2b0f21f4baccf83efc82969920a5313e0d779286d0eb5870cc3d87a
font_02_sfnt_off000121af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1