Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7207842913cd9067…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:38:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4c71cfa028b92155de03eb95fb429363 SHA-1: be7c9a29a106004f54001fd3cc223d03babd40d2 SHA-256: 7207842913cd9067396b893a97bfe965a8083bf1bb7d4a5867a06d92f4d8e3fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, including those using formcraft plugins for file uploads. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' in one URL suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content, possibly for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210702025755.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://52fotki.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fexobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee2d3b3173---pidujafota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sizopazozipiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fontaine-eva.fr/userfiles/files/67299180079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/800bljhhdcfpu0taf0ho9lnq28/zezubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/vakagovuwukijotas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926a873d3f7---9899439993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d3188ff63---pevewosolivavipivasit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/866fb907280d3d17d2be8b635cf46509/favob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098600c2e742---zikiraxojebivutos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umhouses.com/uploads/files/32683915385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purefeeling8.com/data/file/2744544507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baa50b7eefa55f3d77be5731b03f08f8/xavovudumimoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cebd9929d8---fotifolowadopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/xokoziziseramewoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db3619407d61c11fb17260403a0681e1/sinul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/44562350775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromatographvials.com/d/files/7660665565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949c5f15038---43124699808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6c24d12392---juvuwabofugukifexar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-group.com/upload/files/dikinoxuzidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/tututub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1j6ao25ee01hk64og07ib8ht3/fisikawanidiwaxefupuwufal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b205a4a688a---garugitata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=pact+with+the+sunPDF 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_off0000cee7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEE7 16740 bytes
SHA-256: 49ac944b77c39dd41d9c10e3d7530362502f923f860dc0e07cef76f2f322f286
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011259.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11259 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 99715b7fec72630f81da3d0d9253bad022a7e563bc50b8c6533a187dfd6a37c7