Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7254d005269ac371…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.6 KB Created: 2021-08-05 14:35:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3a52b2ff98b17459e715faa0c3969224 SHA-1: b60cc66bb484a1f3c49e18519da29c8013e1ba74 SHA-256: 7254d005269ac371169af26986df130b12b4b7085318ce734e9f9613c2c03ea5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to trick users into downloading further malware or visiting phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+barron%27s+essential+words+for+the+ielts+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1cea7c9ee---10022089655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/90095387226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f93b0c9b0b---xetixupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steps4cancer.org/clients/a/a7/a78c374070a178914b502abaf3db82b8/File/93293982029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983f0ac5017---dofosuzukimazidelejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/todiwonukunilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apz-arte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vesijetedutavosozeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmhsclassof1977.com/clients/34196/File/16685623751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gea99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39629906785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.org/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/13078010834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bsjdb91s7v8n79cmlv6phg6pi/96398530453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j8n0vkfo62aekf3i0s83cf2t8t/5673694077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garystrike.com/clients/3/30/301ae0ed988f9237e4cb8f8c41f6cb36/File/nupifimurunarazuwoxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d26e502fec---vexuvijegerotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/juninef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://breakevenpoint.pl/uploads/editor/file/45428711687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/1343033938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5fa53a2ed4---wikorilazowovaropaboguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/718864743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4cf9a3418df9071bf088646b9c35e46/wakozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/zarenuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e93ebd52d3f61d88dc236dfa02d876b/67561371865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archetipoingegneria.it/userfiles/files/35397741973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digbijoynath.in/iisc/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/xewakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/45581375588.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_off0001602f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1602F 10856 bytes
SHA-256: f5f02c55e8bdc3e7258e1d20bddce5129ff6320ab852720eb77a9d01de94e44a
font_01_sfnt_off0001790f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1790F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00019121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19121 23000 bytes
SHA-256: 8b1215e13040e4dcca91cff21e24c353b9343d0f66667ad7b729f998c44b0d79