Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7524650cf6c91cf9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-08-02 09:51:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2eca0c14a5dd6fc128290dc5af6d8ff2 SHA-1: b4174d6fcf5918a492e2fc4d34d17f0759814da3 SHA-256: 7524650cf6c91cf91dc4eb85a55ded7620693191be462992d4fcb66890cc1940
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as a link farm. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages, indicating a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+figure+out+retained+earnings+on+a+balance+sheet PDF link annotation
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/22200969084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b5008e0a27b7fab2f48b2646841a448/lajuxuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ocbcsmd5gkmmkkqftct9efhie1/89136667500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/5365405257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0b3abf0c7---powubalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1db5d28fe8---46720635060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/dimanok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costabravas.com/uploads/localidades/files/wawemonugegedup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/fikegara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/pidusokozojofexijif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/fixobibagatokoxefabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daycamhoa.net/upload/UploadFiles/files/xukeveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mchs67.com/clients/6/60/601da637195afcc8544498be66ee72b0/File/38801423874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/32076687994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1988.com/clients/75739/File/95220835730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/lavakegikune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fabfff23ac907c2472da592e9c77a07/64671800884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/serikozapilet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fc205aaeb890acd22784295f9505cd2/43732045369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a53bbd24111---89257040579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteservices.com/FCKeditor/userimages/file/gowulapodotijofofajobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a11e74b45---bapunojuwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/rutunubawezomujelupeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b76d06c4690---litasonopapez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiace-yoshikawa.com/js/upload/files/vobaruzezesupunoxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4759265dc7---69598093304.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_off00010051.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10051 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011868.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11868 11072 bytes
SHA-256: af065de15fe1437eeecb17e7d93baf60b69001bd45a11727a5a35e791db7fe76
font_02_sfnt_off000131f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131F0 16780 bytes
SHA-256: 2b88ed866812cbdbe1570c7cb470e1fd21fa693b930a525015a6560274ae1fe4