Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7325d3181d39131a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 05:23:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bcdfcbcf5bb0e13fad0e610424368a0b SHA-1: 085985fd239f0b14c9750ed8c78dc13e1c34b4e4 SHA-256: 7325d3181d39131af0c8ea3b7cdf7e7e95bdc04f1216427df72ce5a90aa7959b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing and potential trojan distribution attempt. It utilizes a link farm strategy with numerous URLs hosted on disposable domains, aiming to trick users into downloading malware disguised as a media player. The presence of external URIs and link farms strongly suggests a phishing attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+media+player+for+android+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://mail-ex.net/userfiles/file/72194709420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjcfurnituremaker.com/userfiles/files/6950845160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theofficeplus.com/userfiles/file/70789378069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willbramephotography.com/7785459542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimuselearningschool.com/learning/site/images/uploadfiles/vuserapefexigide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/30364929835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmen-bekleidung.at/userfiles/file/wafupunebage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shian-jin.com/UserFiles/files/kadiwaratemukopoxabig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/625651387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvsatkrosno.pl/userfiles/file/3231687945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairfresh.net/assets/admin/ckeditorimage/files/21080036005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141369791b13---42546805726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cudicio.it/images/file/lukadexumojubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marienoellebermond.com/img/uploaded/file/49062682611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skopjemuzikon.pmgrecordings.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14978172046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://88cpap.com/userfiles/files/16407841124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sabaispa.net/userfiles/file/dufur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613acdb133e6e---22301246605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/tofemakelixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elperrocallejero.info/ckfinder/files/wawojajimejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613904b8a5b7c---11828551465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lean-ds.com/upload/editor/file/fubozuletulenuzit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinkorea.com/files/files/sogesafot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614056bd45462---63648872912.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_off0000e3c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C2 10696 bytes
SHA-256: c7c20650f8adb7cb79ccaab169b68c234c8bc6f86de971406903b0e932620d1f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011423.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11423 16472 bytes
SHA-256: a86eee96296027c608176a698401648847f74150629fdf336dedcac22681e82c