Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7752f9aa71322c90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:19:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e828f7902dd159e971a5f3d7833183e2 SHA-1: 70aa2f73fbaa732496a2befa6bdb8c89bc8b4595 SHA-256: 7752f9aa71322c90e27af323b634a47d860ac2b6fa2de5c806f348d010ad8bee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple unknown URLs further supports this phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9805

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 https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab8bf1f1d8---74948031881.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609878bcd74ad---sobasoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a50585d5882e8674861a544cb8dbe8ce/jaxitutudiwipin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/58084455074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/povuwadipudilunafir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9015ebe220---80509369795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/wiserotavoxujorarefir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eldorado777.ro/upload/editor/file/90697425653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090959232208---89692857087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db85aa2db9721d33013c6db3f0aa037f/wopowuvomigoliwopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rafilagudexagoworumaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4191703bc810cfaa6233a33295eb0b31/68106640018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0fbf125e130d79b181040d77cd5c09a/23794898338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackivy.pl/userfiles/file/60019002500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ir09cbb35c1qukooklk8lbobt/71654847416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01f46e811bd8ec81e5b0a6680d620f36/52765118360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764b2c47fb0---mogunax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/88233510865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160996f01d1989---koman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luyenthidhcanhsat.com/Images_upload/files/vefebebazizosowewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0494122b2417a28805489f08ec1acebd/kujiderone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d8d2723a3---zozanibuvufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdbcf8d3f62---dekekederexagixexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f7c09a4941---tusarokeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/jilelekumuruteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiuyutv.com/userfiles/files/20210612023011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/rilawuvuxesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=high+protein+in+csf+symptomsPDF 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_off00015e40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E40 17804 bytes
SHA-256: c3be6e84c3b69f680da41602e50f6e5f7359d6945d1d79c335aacd959b43f1bd
font_01_sfnt_off00018c02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18C02 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 584b66d3c5ed7206510454d00d25d81f4b26e91eb4961820f3dbf07a6d89b59a
font_02_sfnt_off0001a4c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A4C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1