Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7929e56a4c980e7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-29 08:36:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cc3347782393f625666a4d73b93a6aea SHA-1: 45d0ac3b389cef705819da996808f68254cbf1f8 SHA-256: 7929e56a4c980e7e22a6f82be38198dc9001f74c6d323fd81341155a0ffa07b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, designed to redirect users to other PDF files or potentially malicious content. The presence of multiple embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://mxag.com/upload/browse/file/kojoxovogujexokapit.pdf
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/riwinugalusupogolez.pdf
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e10b82b7a---pizepo.pdf
    • http://ags-sib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dinutugutepojunafe.pdf
    • http://vattuxaydunghl.com/userfiles/file/vilalefazuwigenabirudi.pdf
    • https://rrr71.ru/upload_picture/22662586977.pdf
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.org/imagenes/file/gupudoxitenuvogobi.pdf
    • http://simsvizag.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file///romifeken.pdf
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613df3559fd9e---logaxinanebi.pdf
    • http://xn--c1aejbdnke.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dewixokufabowofuza.pdf
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kq2dcr6947cdkmf2drokle2rqp/lazujerixetaramapaloju.pdf
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/bisapepojanesoloxiluli.pdf
    • http://cesarrodarte.com/userfiles/file/rurifew.pdf
    • https://brakos.it/file/39714855726.pdf
    • http://inbeeldt.nl/userfiles/file/tafadogat.pdf
    • http://take114.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_9820E3187FC49886.pdf
    • http://gorod-r.com/userfiles/file/73556615529.pdf
    • http://blueyee.com/upload/file/100600081263.pdf
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/mifobenaniwevafisexu.pdf
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b425fefa0e66e7f86bbc2a8248a5148/zopute.pdf
    • http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/3680240179.pdf
    • http://winhazel.com/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wusosemaxuniparodet.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+share+my+location+in+whatsapp+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b185.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB185 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c99c.bin
92a5f4a11223154a0e59d266a6c0cbde78c57ff3ee8c1bd51319be544a0ddbd1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC99C 10968 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e2ed.bin
ccd251e782373a07ebd70a2225d6682164cc306c5ebaff8239443281e012f00c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2ED 17020 bytes