Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7094d77c0ed18b99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:37:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ed5dcb46b53eefe7206b3129b034a4aa SHA-1: 54227f2c185babc7ccef906120c76408245f2d41 SHA-256: 7094d77c0ed18b99f12f5e2cf582a2a0bc787136ede0c446ad734466c3fafae5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The embedded URLs are designed to lure users to potentially malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=using+capital+letters+worksheets+for+grade+1 PDF link annotation
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/81011889911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a49cc94952d0ac162ea7a9421186e791/44695058530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/janezadaxetuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlaamspatientenplatform.be/_plugin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xomijopotoxoropobatezajox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valve-toho.com/userfiles/file/ganob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/laxetededejuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-lan.ru/uploads/assets/file/vatefuwuwofuxasafasuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81472500028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futuresbuilder.net/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/fosokobuwawopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champaigncursillo.com/userfiles/file/22020618679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/163b9d51e8d4eb0d4d653c7471d9319b/regekobidosujuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theaterbuehne-schwandorf.de/userfiles/file/pekusomilukamumelusinajeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/78141638079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkglobalcompliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97226744390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7994f12048cf30e1be2af4b1aea3b3c/81359902276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andymullinscommercial.com/home/andy/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47681979589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/92082222603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a69734b82---47549029407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehnfeldt.com/userfiles/file/65747745348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koslita.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxidoxobale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/55649495271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handsonmontessoripk.com/userfiles/files/dozixugutupevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbd6635614174dc12c3c733fd62bea79/mozirizosemerexun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/90810835944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bce1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F8 11136 bytes
SHA-256: b42810770a54757047f6449800c6da9f5f95d562d6772db2a5b88b24e3f8eac6
font_02_sfnt_off0000eed1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED1 17096 bytes
SHA-256: aa68471b01279afa36593de100f7134599144f26e299ee3689b319ececc68a03