Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7138029499572e8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:58:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d17de91dd16a36beea19bab2eba9b463 SHA-1: b2e978ee0b5e4fc1d6787722f237f29ba88ffd8a SHA-256: 7138029499572e8c90a0bea21b07d5d952664890f38a0101fc63aee274722699
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, likely to facilitate the download of further malicious payloads. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=navodaya+admission+form+2020+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078afe3f1f33---suxejufibunodaxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://napiarsaigh.com/images/xitefofukijizutasodajeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kltccompany.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80409768269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sterlingsez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bosedinanufawawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satbietthu.com/luutru/files/86967931641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fsukmec51t6v6k0bgncmjaie7s/vumusinuwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/41105016568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cc170b9f15938de01bd4919a1c71708/gopuwutijifiwefasun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e53f7fda7fa---janatusavivavax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tienhasteel.com/app/webroot/upload/files/72860727949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19e5ae8af3e0bff6d4ce585acfdb489f/79435990896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021080611512474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0575e2268b---sovobopovovexezexijifurin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daming-school.com/userfiles/file/48566539851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vino-charlie.cz/userfiles/file/4135891372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/jifijapiterizezifizel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idaskitchen.org/clients/d/d8/d86ca706a5600d452cde81e4a21b2d68/File/371235761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2ea542c53335773642bdf6bc6595fff/juvasemijizijezipewutivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7d341f3c9---vogitoferujosawotama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/955418bc42ffc9ad34240717d1579729/gumikexaraweme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catherine-massage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/badijureferinagulugubeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0826/f520028fe05f9dab185985da605a690a.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_off0000d70f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD70F 18068 bytes
SHA-256: c5c408b717f55d0d9a583697170b703de6a799af898720143156600fff8dc4df
font_01_sfnt_off0001060d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1060D 10912 bytes
SHA-256: c37d9328e31abadb30b4ea3d631de06ff207df2ce9cd00cdcdfbdc0afb441360
font_02_sfnt_off00011f5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1