Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7331ebda554fba32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:59:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8c88980c58833bb30731968622fccfd5 SHA-1: ef1ad24fbbb4b7ab6531a62200a189fb475206aa SHA-256: 7331ebda554fba323d82dae1b437bc709a8155c9466d81f9ad252a7a20e06c87
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure indicates a malicious intent to lure users through external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202106070525224949.pdf
    • https://tdfstore.it/file/57767615170.pdf
    • http://ahrestygz.com/userfiles/files/20210716_151818.pdf
    • https://www.speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33024537328.pdf
    • http://tivatijapan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/kunovese.pdf
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/6898098445.pdf
    • http://george-dollie-nelson-mass-reunion.com/clients/3/33/33de80a6744892f7217a81a137582dad/File/wuwajadukumobojisa.pdf
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/bulomewij.pdf
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec62a0b534---69314700294.pdf
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca1d213b5989709f5a65acb6ef56d593/20922706739.pdf
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92578503866.pdf
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607069b860ea2---94761896465.pdf
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100eecda473b---525475954.pdf
    • http://decamiones.com/userfiles/file/xuwitalorunukevovewowoz.pdf
    • https://craftsmancuttingdies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/728b0eaf878b25a92c4317543ddeb2f3/27893941685.pdf
    • http://jinshi66.com/uploadfiles/files/50706985669.pdf
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940aba331a9---40276780224.pdf
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430124617518831.pdf
    • http://modaxch.com/userfiles/files/76716998562.pdf
    • https://kuzeyilac.com/resimler/files/najoranufazakowazorow.pdf
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2017abbc5d6c34ba653f8cd34543424/28532349064.pdf
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/xakupupusinegij.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=blood+after+a+pap+smear
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd5d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD5D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e574.bin
f3482b67550d0d867d8d3e457f9cd427ae030e81e461573ec4770579a73515ce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE574 10516 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd74.bin
3a07936138b336a9e70a75ed42ba6e0ca8170aac4bfb8452cc1400ff8d917fbc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD74 16892 bytes