Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7753a6bbc77903ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-07-23 11:16:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7d1b292b1f914caef4a225d6fd882029 SHA-1: db63d4ed4e51fbca475fa3b8beed8950a592c538 SHA-256: 7753a6bbc77903ade67f56132278508566f2e2e0e395b20b33a1beb758d6cbce
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attack, potentially distributing further malware or leading to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41b27acca00be2a9ceaa71b09bb9ae4c/wesodotonulozexujuponum.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/xikebomajoduxemanexixaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c83e92f5c7c472a242bc78a3669524d/6388167318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a71536ac6---jaxevomifukatoxaverubule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd2e72b6ddf---146133501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dea9f250289---38639725101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nuyew.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57d681011ea02b0ddae3d784e2b615b7/28568237136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1f46b86b41645d6f1a5abf697e125a2/retot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahae.hu/files/files/35549510861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db079a902eb---kumufabavamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviapartner.biz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xejemen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fce4a4dd066c12c1d993d4d50d034e6/70685191959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e607091a7---37710405842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzebrno.cz/userfiles/file/mitetogutesafiruxowapap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigercabinetry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/649b1f71efe897bb570b666931a3d837/32670547954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/userfiles/file/55334500693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/39088386967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4538da7175---wapawijabebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieompaysdebray.fr/lesiom/txt/imgadmin/file/83082977175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xtra360.net/campannas/file/pupubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ddd7d558f---bezaxukakukarat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fb66cc748fdfbec1f8da24b7b9eca5e/12275338792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/567mvin3u5fpc8hutuck1rseiu/21207382596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzetti.it/userfiles/files/raleroludozelonakebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=ds3+knight+armorPDF 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_off0000e5c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5C4 16160 bytes
SHA-256: e6989adfca4468bef9fc0bf3879b8a84dd39808ee91a3252fc1987b2fc4147df
font_01_sfnt_off00010fa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA6 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 228832fb88cd5e198629fae9baf60bd6ca8a66152e1d8d542b5d4e3fe1724dc3
font_02_sfnt_off000127db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1