Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7762754196b0416d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:27:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3e2004a39ca95b32ab4305fdf210da17 SHA-1: 448d09a560401bb111eca06776ac7910b0748c6c SHA-256: 7762754196b0416dfa6fa9261b04d2704bb3aa4c74cf43d53a86d49c5979092f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. Heuristics suggest these links are on disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload storage, increasing the likelihood of phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://cuakeobinhduong.com/upload/files/zexupoxinugosewusasel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6coq5j2urlj53vf9qqhu9i8jq1/pelixito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/netifevuzekema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5abeo8tn76bnr5ag36ikk81g9/75880461051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b39dcd88dfa0a70b83de4c16946c11dd/62627057754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccb5648305116dae971b295baaba6caf/81282636558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e3f7eb604---nokipiteratig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shanghaiqingchen.com/upload/files/mutedodulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a498379a91c30de026a1456fa5ded6db/lituzejisutabupida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millionsdiscount.com/mo_images/files/79299386515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaledellasignora.it/userfiles/files/zijeliben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb118f65597---80068597980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emauto.lv/index/images/up/file/55733302766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807d34630c7---42062445109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystaltrade.hu/data/file/89960846547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db22cb3210aba4b9352a315c09531c2b/30813184611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f64d8c495---46196105081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc0a2b66bd---laxipilebise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/6282088789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyogytornasziget.hu/uploads/files/45544618824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msamericapageant.com/clients/873634/File/36481581750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ganajebujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airelimpio.mx/img/editor/file/fikeber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8df071ec9e---xoxikep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=manualidades+halloween+para+ni%C3%B1os+para+imprimirPDF 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_off0000e088.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE088 19152 bytes
SHA-256: 4e556be7c7430ef61adf173fc8c5a218cd6ec80f3b6224ac12a8cf28d9ef4999
font_01_sfnt_off000111a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129BA 10944 bytes
SHA-256: d82f26ac814fc6c3f1e49b1b3bde032ad7e401821529a5132bd29fef68bc2a55