Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7d730f961ec5e7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:02:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 73d18d4afd89f394d8203b8a8c2e108e SHA-1: 1ff8d5fbbe9ed42faf6228d87bf5c1b205c7603d SHA-256: f7d730f961ec5e7bc741c26870ef8bc471e7ac2562fa7ded289b869b0f8c7eef
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous URLs, including one hosted on a raw IP address, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body is truncated and unreadable, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://nakajima-ya.com/upload/save_image/files/rikota.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushi.com/uploads/files/88495902118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matteagianotti.ch/userfiles/files/kevof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116cd3257c72---48494335297.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://ms01bet.net/contents//files/bobamuwegiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i95soku2jtp7c8om8m44kidq32/jivisozedaxuwelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/72062686417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtrichur.com/userfiles/file/83965118177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43dcd7093a3c829b494fee5ce488a431/38603310573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/97676723942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shukokai-voves.fr/userfiles/file/wovokatufewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/85168741756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/wukuzokidivuxujimelanajaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1olk29qoldvacb4vsm5pj7vq1/fipod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status-go.net/gfx/userfiles/files/waramuzebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7e41579869c7c18fc133dbdcc36029b/12577568905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hill-macktribe.com/clients/7/78/785e88641dcef8d5cadf71fa969cae92/File/manigowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/taqskjgc643nkp1m56p7tvjto4/riwibexujisubajikunigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96c4094853---59814971135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.twibiotech.com/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55514520145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607491a996f5b---33787321642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610cd1d74ab61---jezivupidopikalomukufow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/pazawoxezixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chineseclothingonline.com/File/73659334357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=black+cat+with+pacifierPDF 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_off0000bad9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAD9 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 5a59ae81424904a15769233050333ecde82dd8a59c1fa7b9a0d0e9143f989ccb
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2A8 15408 bytes
SHA-256: e1aa79e61dd0b2158bd1dfc83ca3dd2000b4e3bb88518d8dcada46ae5e443099
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1