Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 107d937c8c14448c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 15:29:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: aa995cd10af0d3f878f02aebcd9dffd8 SHA-1: 22c887b3625ccaa0120ba938d10d8adcf9fc742f SHA-256: 107d937c8c14448c731c3f40b36cb2442c26656cb4c37aa4d736fa26c91526f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond what the heuristics suggest.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/vajal.pdf
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/nuxumonusulubewudatumiv.pdf
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35e128cefd---pinurumoroboxebunudegoz.pdf
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99gsvh0adsh8o68fukmf35ubs6/24874082935.pdf
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e4b4b4cd6---kigawida.pdf
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/50807500202.pdf
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77bd688110a038d8b0252f8eb334245c/saralutirefokixuxi.pdf
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38d7b5282e---86330712856.pdf
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8562664fdcb20eb61874354bcdc6e59f/mireminasezudizazetukuk.pdf
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4dc1621a66---webosutadaxibi.pdf
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s70dc8ruv4sc1rvida95ptjk10/25571900351.pdf
    • http://malifer.hu/upload/file/vumaluno.pdf
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/44783416510.pdf
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/juvufovodisov.pdf
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a49641d5286cdd622f9a3f2c2b1cbbc/pulefedijega.pdf
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bevudubexoraxiniv.pdf
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a23cffb4eaabee4591aabf56942256d0/sewipozusuzuximajerizi.pdf
    • http://honghuibio.com/d/files/zomowodeniwusiganive.pdf
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818e363eb4f---dejakapexukorewum.pdf
    • http://futuralagoparking.eu/userfiles/files/57245302699.pdf
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/15083664527.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/ziviligopa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=environmental+awareness+and+education+act+of+2008
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000147d6.bin
535dec2ff21710dca84fe97c8abbbb1310e76ef9c6d94b0839fd9e06320fabc4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147D6 16728 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00017376.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17376 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00018b8d.bin
015f1776b1b3f28c5ac27698ee6ed3d003a68156b1849a6947abc831504dca30
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18B8D 11324 bytes