Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ca7902b675268cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:33:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 103f8d4c813b5d63eb207e3e726b2920 SHA-1: 43e7915db4ec0019db60ec70fb88118575ef13aa SHA-256: 1ca7902b675268ccedd0b7296918390ed0db1c460c550c536a83ecb0ea533973
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, consistent with a spearphishing attachment attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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 https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/92017041365.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://czus-lukasa.sk/userfiles/file/kafavogesaranigujulajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28844682b1---lalonojegudaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc81971358a---didaretiraleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q027vh7o0fv5f5vlgd983f0s3kqhl5pq/gadatafamafalexivadet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lobanowscy.pl/userfiles/file/66909069681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce9f3485a34d6d9bc729f2578603b992/pozijonabugukovawuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccce8fa1c7d---kemora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a825650ef---88633205738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4848790da787e91687c3abcfd27f5291/65159395071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd84ca7175c6c61f2c1d5cfc15a4cdbf/4139837276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b1a36e78e---88517820538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owv-sad.de/userfiles/files/34712006980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd4a6b8552---71550303066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://28777886.com/Lpf/UPFILE/userfiles/files/82042311499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finatwork.com/userfiles/file/xinos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ac58714448009d77d7aee8018e17cc5/godideburadadopukevixinam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/46546944203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooobelkom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64566770925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/lolavugodexagomatedoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608499102c83a---dekukamovun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzl-pro.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/mofesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestwingsbeltsville.com/uploads/files/wusunidasufifaseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d778ee240---54424752580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/puvimuturufunibuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freewest.at/12215976643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b29195f8f8cbe6a9cfcc0b27ad8bb0bc/vepakux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+check+a+blood+pressure+manuallyPDF 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_off0000c85f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC85F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE071 15948 bytes
SHA-256: 7a135317bb1edfbe8cec6c5c461e9d737c00ff87657d4f9dbb6410d1ad6b0125
font_02_sfnt_off00010925.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10925 11208 bytes
SHA-256: d813bc36b8219bb57bf24446ea4a453bd82b1670340edfe7cc1a0a215a569401