Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7922361ac06f716b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-06-15 22:27:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 55be3654f26c7c9f7c227f82d10d3c76 SHA-1: a09c6c9b4d51c14fe365d4bb264b77a05d65bb05 SHA-256: 7922361ac06f716b2542b98d41d381788220cfbdeeb9a331a080d5d3d976150f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'Centrelink medical report', a common lure for phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=centrelink+medical+report+sa332a PDF link annotation
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5fea313c36d0278a2eae5ddc33087fa/20954646507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78990243c7d0a25510d412181b8f6dce/33200857024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/vipera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a558719c4---warorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/27376270708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/549eac6d90462a3ebdfa306e324a7432/79399850215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/felejukudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hn7643pdh4n688afgfnm9etf44/wunajibopapela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06491457f48767eec249b3d7a2a308a7/85601375714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bedda035b17---fetelore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e0028165e57054ec43937da34ba1403/5170070132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1959.com/clients/51168/File/wefalejofudifakixomuzufam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkquiz.com/userfiles/file/86017784074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/81516336876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbfebd2456---kupedegadesazuravogir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d2855e5f7---majoxemofajogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876e685d999---siginazuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off000107ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107FF 5484 bytes
SHA-256: bdada1e36ef17333406d89f4a936b1e9711542f5dbc55f21244fa5ee812fe4f2
font_01_sfnt_off00011a8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A8C 10464 bytes
SHA-256: e1d96255b7022fadbb2c873fbf92bd2b29cf2833aef80de2c2d70b8d41442a9a
font_02_sfnt_off00013e58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E58 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 00468df452218f546d59995a7cf9b4297092e2fd476dbd2f6ce79846bd051107