Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7b8c0afa246fa40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-18 09:33:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 569c47d0e333f6d2422b45de323230c7 SHA-1: dcba757b28090c64b670407cb034e0dbde61b232 SHA-256: f7b8c0afa246fa40aa717472af60645e4661699f560dd7db8483d1ecc986778e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are compromised WordPress uploads or hosted on disposable domains. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious or phishing content, or for SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/4435986467.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bdb72831b82127ad5ee568da0c40cb0/nilasovejizulufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8b3acf328---sagetiwusujujup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25c46be0d400f48832471c4528646236/zaforebirazida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mdteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69280843171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160aaf493d7394---70792378407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skincarebylaura.com/clients/862251/File/75193762293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarhuskortet.dk/images/file/suzaviponaxone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18414606527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/504e774b3b6e245418f006a3084feb0c/45425375756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3b26ce921---44588712731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/livomokizugivavim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuzanivolatitewutamaxarow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/lolizurowuvabigakenil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseacarpet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/xuparidulunodideseto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c33bfa89289---58784137805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///vufosixumawap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6d2336246731dac059e37416e284434/94505106875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lose-weight.tw/upload/files/62651334709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamnitikamini.si/upload/files/sedobubomebozobes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irantruck.ir/data/file/88182285684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608685a77c0b4---16445199549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10e99b9fe73a8837d249dcd92db2e209/gezoxotidivenewaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/55466253875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptatravel.com/clients/4/48/489dad2d2d8436d4c085fc0ccdc2d1b3/File/20095790311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/64240683904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=cause+and+effect+detailed+lesson+planPDF 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_off0000e989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE989 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2f2b12872b3fd0312459db32ad14507bfb44eb1e518ea47faf2ad1b584b4fc
font_01_sfnt_off0001020a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1020A 16616 bytes
SHA-256: fc31dc593593304ee60120ef77c45d655ef84a5fae34445b437624b0f334cf89
font_02_sfnt_off00012d3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1