Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7d445bf1ed21f1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:51:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 06754dfb976562fbfcd9daaa980771c2 SHA-1: cf927a1ec8946d0bd214f29ad348bee1874abeca SHA-256: f7d445bf1ed21f1bb911fa11bd33060d103da0df7de2046970fee7e0232b7441
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for malware distribution or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=synonyms+and+antonyms+worksheet+pdf+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/24126418212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dca08b8f3d1---rajuzulosirufixokopuvog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/nusedefasuzalaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manage4.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/99436175217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/827a88968bff6d30d2c72584d838963b/70246953927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/436e86174d4e68387a0f3ed3c5e8f10d/xuwalax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/2873093029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/46867445054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95e0d34477148c49bc9df4c5b7a35d8f/taliwixew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geya99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47728059861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6290865465---lagamipolijewowijoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9bc7d68574---libidaxewejudon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b2b3ac83fe4---49230891650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhorizontours.com/userfiles/files/14361192188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/xisov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/54587420853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-7/20210607210749465431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/499062d530be1c7fb2d35573e0ecc3d0/13711693259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b768b1d177---tukupudafawofajofirubun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38fc923ef1---lazitavodaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobansut.com/userfiles/file/529463257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zebcom.in/userfiles/file/69100524886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fdscience.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/dutopezexusep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dexgerm.com/data/file/userfiles/files/16850908934.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_off0000b520.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB520 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD37 11084 bytes
SHA-256: ef0f413fc8896d4fc04d82c550fe7c53332a2074a155f3c033f0b667bf4a80fb
font_02_sfnt_off0000e6e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E9 15208 bytes
SHA-256: 575ed5cd61cc39a4e483276524524aa1e76c2eadd32c5397031fdc6e90150f73