Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 788b7f5f8970fbed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-20 10:04:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 22ee04262121878d97429d354146cdc8 SHA-1: 1b50b18d04c4dcaaceaed774b3a092b2cba914de SHA-256: 788b7f5f8970fbedb14b5d5ccd39bf507ec6a34a1cc12da7ec5d39807767f740
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or potentially malicious websites. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads indicates an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/janutu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/70002256666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc29fbbfe32---45537262338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeat.ru/var/files/ginidafasufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74i6mgsi6m27forvedja1tmeg4/93311739742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2t2voo5u214icbqj3sdms9got0/64453123252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brmc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/83018663996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/zaronelawufol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae109a5b3bd---malonaxakobetojajar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/betedem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2ed7a0ee9---nonulojirupitonaxeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/kunewotivinopanizodusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/73148317942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rk3kkmtf8edqjjfqqv3ksbuql0/82498114985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba8d4ad05e3---51163773584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607417f778123---14271665227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/14521554190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607905d54a9cb---50833775461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/69884730551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a29ddc388---varulesowiwetat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daearesort.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210705_CA599B140751067E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/14804651720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0edb4e119805eb83f3a55449d09e83ac/jizodadabotoluvanoreji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0702fb9083---sovinopuradunazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=irs+form+1040+for+2020+tax+yearPDF 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_off0000e57a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57A 10672 bytes
SHA-256: afff888f9278090ac74d8a9c4b593e89b09140c50229b210943845ad3f0d5154
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE2D 16724 bytes
SHA-256: 0887a7dcdbf5c1fee7081e462de93c679652508fcd99bb5957c7e18ee7300b70
font_02_sfnt_off000129af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1