Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c7c35e095565382…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:49:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 918f22f61838a468817b2b8b507d7e1f SHA-1: de8e33969f308f82af3343bb68ad354bd7d35256 SHA-256: 1c7c35e095565382c10b1e913928401d6777814a54565e41d739a7c62866d9d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm on disposable hosting and points to compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://alfavs.eu/userfiles/file/42522985575.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/95754493647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/14372958599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bacc6669457633bf1038ea9420237bd1/vujaxolul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bydnjl.com/userfiles/files/woneropojirafozarari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/laripazoperana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backyardreleaf.ca/clients/6/6a/6a4eaaf8452764cb6fc14c9064ed0c71/File/63999138867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116bf611c2e0---kedijizilibixoxuwoxexaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ca5924f35a880088429d3e98a97e199/xiwelaxepugafojati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastcoastbiker.de/sites/default/files/file/12100468514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ec5633f92def802b09ac2b1125e8e1a/mamaxutopokopugopon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limadelimon.com/images/file/54893092359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/717f7f8807823f1860b986979f2724ac/13517564577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161316aeeb87eb---pulinizemuruni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca3b6f0194---83877622632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nwdglobal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fojuranetavabomasademuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a357b7c58---90886890940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f335491b814cf805345e096bf04f139/64353808654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamarkosong.com/contents//files/vovedomobajanapuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a643c9b1f86---gimorebuvufawitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/nimosibojusig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6821e76b83---zagivetememagap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hiall9n75111pliu7pktbrj5p6/26916415251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68ae75d318460d97c14cbc98f09f2fdf/lifunevoximamagidodidoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=should+i+buy+a+manual+car+redditPDF 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_off0000d078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD078 18408 bytes
SHA-256: e2f73e2128dd9e68366452aa703445b2b0b6e106df848b7061e0f17121365c1d
font_01_sfnt_off00010005.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10005 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001181c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1181C 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 1675600e3642153d7b0b849ec40335f3e66b78ad814bbf7199b6249df839a723