Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ee7d0e9a23800c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 19:50:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 88c18d366386b345dfcad7850569759c SHA-1: b724e8fd6abd128232244234e7ace9755f865e46 SHA-256: 1ee7d0e9a23800c68c5fe97dc908fed6c17a1fba3c9df92ea77c48312ad3b188
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and a high number of distinct hosts further supports this. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/gajowajenip.pdf
    • http://summithighschool1958.com/clients/71652/File/38521928151.pdf
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cbeac49d316ed0cf7c5120377283ee0/45817353676.pdf
    • https://studio-september.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e1f9251d879c432de7a82ac7b50b306/sofajegenejofoz.pdf
    • https://olgapopovaphoto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e69a8878fcde91fd34b37a30006c156/bekafitubizefed.pdf
    • http://meandnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3513477579.pdf
    • http://intergeored.com/upload/File/pebix.pdf
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/96300786890.pdf
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44nvub77dgj8f46b8dn6oc2850/babexidizajur.pdf
    • http://thecreditcrisis.net/clients/73966/File/84846945924.pdf
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c024199d9---rodamivebimefemanoxirugif.pdf
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///vesajupeboluji.pdf
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/nixejoxukiwodumefepuj.pdf
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec3p8gt994s9qr0kacqh72aia0/kujot.pdf
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e92589a64---62837509145.pdf
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6d9847027d10cf5af88b95d04521287/jikarorawufuret.pdf
    • https://bliznacite.com/files/bepufinis.pdf
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b1d35b79b---jivade.pdf
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd8bec2ceb502a18c335320b6b8915d/gopuka.pdf
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///79917485492.pdf
    • https://thieumaunao.vn/workspace/develop/uploads/ck_upload/files/fepenagimosorusamov.pdf
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769477642c4---1539167437.pdf
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f723a8bc7556a663a67488b74f1bd75/29904578215.pdf
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073631c60dd8---81996633058.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=call+of+duty+mobile+mod+apk+unlimited+money+2020
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66d7f58c59133d3e2382923069abcb82/bijuzuvofudawu.pdf
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3e5.bin
72b6d5534888ecec27fd68dccf88827b5fbc3510db23809d90398b76a33fedee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E5 16304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000109d9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D9 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000121f0.bin
0093cc13f3048edf177f9e9337548022370b7a2e61820e9339ba5ab1c032bf17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121F0 11112 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00013bb5.bin
5641e5c6a2a12e91c13471ff7e45d26d5995f0d21b1ef26c0b74aa01ea07150c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BB5 18220 bytes