Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7528d0a3ddcb2dad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-09-27 03:21:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 332000e66868cac1abd92687349ad029 SHA-1: 79b8af55c8c5ca708737b674f1824cca030afbf1 SHA-256: 7528d0a3ddcb2dad423beb66360360e79e296e08d266908e8f7abb204d75e2e8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable hosting. This suggests an attempt to create a link farm for phishing or to distribute further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63844474459.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anabakorea.jp/userfiles/file/rezajososirefefibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/minobuzupafuruxevowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofupingame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/dexopepifig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio86.net/userfiles/fichiers/verufokuxipupoladexebareg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colantuono.it/userfiles/files/36290093956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ernakulamarchdiocese.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93309479015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ea44c7f84---93948664631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damutech.kz/upload/2021/09files/21090415041975482806u7g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babijie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-14/20210914163547612442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161459c438d5a8---33499447726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/32024807514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evermoral.hk/upload/file/1632415420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradoxine.com/upload/files/50055396665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c25b7bd7a465c8f3fd991dc10eb881e/xumogaxupesorakowit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenline.bg/userfiles/file/72091657023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrs-edu.com/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/bitivipupewapeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8819919ff75100c4ba1d6d1aae8833f8/14012767840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kontiko.com/ktkweb3/images/upload/files/makowonojinixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skidubravy.sk/spravca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dirogifowiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c8e2420630---14348034522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia.eu/upload/files/74871663260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irs-messtechnik.at/upload/33883290169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=dual+boot+catalinaPDF 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_off0000af50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF50 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c762.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC762 16572 bytes
SHA-256: 87d22a7d3a4c8f4da30b903d3887ac6901b52f182a8f56ac1d6c7f413730c0d8
font_02_sfnt_off0000f189.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF189 10064 bytes
SHA-256: 8193b5f7c171bb7ecb48167c3f66e859176bfe14bcbf93198212c0c786e4d7d7