Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7502c324d8ac4d3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-21 06:57:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8c760baa2e666667d5ac1fc49724d161 SHA-1: cf26e06428fff5ccb636d21e9018aa21476f54f3 SHA-256: 7502c324d8ac4d3d306753cbb1a78610adc4655208564edd7bd583c734a76583
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely serves as a phishing lure or a distribution point for malware. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of multiple external links and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest a malicious intent to leverage these links for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://iwilldoit.ru/uploads/files/files/58412815092.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/pitojixobaxewadal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff4e8e872d---24932272331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d5c0671c7---27154126244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalltechnik-kutschi.at/19920824438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cff9b7a79c---34711850376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/22213548352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriramashramps.org/userfiles/file/70944093158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irrisyst.eu/files/file/dimonoziripovosoxulovoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7tn5dhm3ddjecq4ge2lculde5/90116734104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59c93831bc5ff714be46cef7c6f22e1d/fudazewunajus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210613041836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7c76390f72a8bc77400350269f05564/18501442856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf21d7b6735e7b3588ddf278a7ecb438/92166055632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8816fcc0c090a36140048a29bd69cf7/72214664275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e2039d062---salebijufivuloxonomefoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenorm.com/files/files/59759582497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrocare.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33904182325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kti62c83k2ras14rcfuuqmtaii/daxodipagajeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df49c7c7ec---14590314935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0405332586d50b1868a901921f3296de/tutofofosubewujor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/46060401507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j2ieqkuog9aduvu4ms7l41q6oc/79362124161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/flmtueept7l9gi63qhoogh05b9/jeniboxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732d13b3bbb---xowanalezusakowemivofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=mole+mass+calculations+worksheet+answersPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dafb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f30c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30C 16168 bytes
SHA-256: 1cfb00680a8a18ef5d5af493cc5b57cfe410abeba37087ee2ecd799c98b61e68
font_02_sfnt_off000108a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A4 15608 bytes
SHA-256: 79064b271756ae9be61df2dabeeb1197a148fc2445c2be7dfce3a9212e8fd2cb
font_03_sfnt_off000130b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130B6 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 7fa01f71bdb9cbc5111cb097bc4c64c3b13f4a5a62b0b3a02e12b4515b4589d8