Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a29d6ab73c7a782…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 14:14:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ca92597e76179198c5987b1e7e66b409 SHA-1: 4150cf49383868cfd393b344dd4b5a090601ed31 SHA-256: 7a29d6ab73c7a782e9134d108c6aabd316b38dfbc085f41e7eea68119d110cbf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5eff89d51---gurodita.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ddc7135e2cdad18733686f312c86414/niwejazimajitetumatenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q562b8jv6fhmjhhm496qt64op8/lemesurati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilmercatinosottocasa.com/file/sananotazusujalesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03da7abdc3b15d0b2b86b3fefe8d4550/33157825891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/wusojefamejiror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/62932840553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hevolta.com/upload/file/37813664331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609532dd0d986---95128196074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mecaniquekd.ca/upload/file/38707505191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/11775691139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b9dcaf770---59454960743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talaa-obour.com/webmisr/uploadwebmisr/file/93941020946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyearland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61904907805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horizontire.com/userfiles/file/69066775926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/48257644331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatoodesign.com/userfiles/files/fevukadaxejaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bca7e7df6d3---81929441919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77470a07240ea0f3cb6064e9c64dabaa/87522677846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69dr126p0jj6tev7ctsa7e0v9v/zegobon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79k5v8bsn31t0eem0uq0j1un6t/76969553355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f7d70bdbe---retudavaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed98e4d2ed0011f29d278a9eccf7ea3e/63166525015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfrontedelmare.com/userfiles/files/66392527292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifbant.com/resimler/files/58763605180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=lol+doll+coloring+pages+petsPDF 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_off0000e8b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B8 16704 bytes
SHA-256: 43cf663d30ae9779e1a02a46df396e82a00c1655794a14c6e5e9fed03eab7c1a
font_01_sfnt_off00011427.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11427 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 9924c3defdf9e876669e4d99a56fdcb48fd8689760d6fbcc462da9d416d9ecdf
font_02_sfnt_off00012c65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1