Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7451b0a22513e4be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-07-13 17:21:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 39e0e0de0d0c5ebaaa87d0cedf7bc3c1 SHA-1: a9a6093f819d304e2fca2983447e75895759a518 SHA-256: 7451b0a22513e4be19e3b204b65347c3615fa502887202534afc98efb9002dd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous URLs, several of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm intended to obscure the final destination. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://world-spa-resorts.com/dok/226888454.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maekuangudomthara.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ripemigabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1623898403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auchli-appenzeller.ch/userfiles/files/zigaranupeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/geimkvg4cc0vdvdmvbmuproikc/nolesomivizagusite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46f1ea7d43---mevajebinedulige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4458cbfdd4---15276701238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/noguenn17ioois1f30r7n1jno3/towikejelebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accu-chek-event.com/ckupload/files/fejazujotipoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/70256514429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predia.cz/userfiles/file/povofopikijajuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb1a8b8a82---buwepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/lenuralelix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/buporozoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autobedrijvenindex.nl/images/uploads/didilexixudivirimozolobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f34f59feeab1abdd6cac74e781e0a37a/91115943074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f98f6c5274---fibukazose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9433b25c28---zigevaxedupopip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a816c59daa765235cc995edbde74c239/92053730611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810bc1240dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorillatheory.com/admin/upload/file/bolopidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u38qfasbjhkt2qt5jshiru9fd0/1441727981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanxuattrucauthangkinh.com/Images_upload/files/64510406688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dangeloremodeling.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/vovorewulowudunuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778cfc1d29d---9466876776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=do+androids+dream+of+electric+sheep+plotPDF 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_off000103e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103E4 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 10cbbb5349290c6d5774ebdc2b414fd4f71b95d82f871f858f3316c431bc596b
font_01_sfnt_off00011cd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CD5 17332 bytes
SHA-256: d0630a2152e4c69ed537a2108009df4826433f42bfff9514e7f8a99ff84fd824
font_02_sfnt_off00014a4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1