Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7570eb7e33c5a90f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-07-24 22:46:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 298450b59fc3401cc3c2f77f8e4f880b SHA-1: 9dd66a8b2e110baf928cf1bbd48866852797c721 SHA-256: 7570eb7e33c5a90f92a0f3aad2deec5d0ddc8d516f76884e7bda869c7452bdd3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs and the heuristic findings strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://compow.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58485992581.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/97884321486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mto99luifti04ueg8cpf3mv2gn/95827738359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19c51cq6a34eq4r1ulvr2knmk2/99997875551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4a3867cek5bce0aq8dtijstnt/zodoripubaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b92411255---vuwegidinogarovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f3d238658---47239600994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://train-in-japan.com/images/blog//file/kifabovezubijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8d1f8e2150---99344285091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/pivesazekanamiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48rsmq5j04marc7lqrbhfl3a7c/puzulinimevenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782c9a984b4---22219859410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92f0480801---90969317624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/zefujolegapadujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatvideo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dowowiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/gozazokizevinojolojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795f7ea00c5---93118452738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atdawnwelift.com/userfiles/file/vabawapipitewokakuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/saxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r94jesaabfrlbr36n0hn3ucmbh/14284224634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shadesvalleymounties1969.com/clients/868959/File/10593526385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44558004966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giorgiosantinelli.it/file/totorapokapetudowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutot99.com/webroot/img/files/punumogewuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=expanding+double+brackets+worksheet+with+answers+tesPDF 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_off0000ca54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e26b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE26B 11296 bytes
SHA-256: 0fe85281a6fb92508b0504e7f26da349c1e54e0dca684eb2f4f8fb5e391f4700
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC80 16776 bytes
SHA-256: 9fe3f1fd4eb573a98085a89d59f32e2f7b88665beaa83cefcb6b4dcd1c5db666