Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a3411e6a229c57c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 21:51:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 811d5a956e2c1d4bdee5a1e392b34e51 SHA-1: 2606651948f5b0eeee0843ddb26c0826e83c3249 SHA-256: 7a3411e6a229c57cd83f00eaaac290af9cfe927016b2cd67b247720bc79fcca7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or host malicious content.

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 https://olterus.info/contents//files/97329916261.pdf
    • http://indecomavo.pl/inc/80086032069.pdf
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1453373800---jetebirubukirabanerotena.pdf
    • http://interstyle.org/content/xuploadimages/file/birifovegubes.pdf
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/nodovosisonikuxunaredixis.pdf
    • https://e-uchebnici.com/img/file/6598272966.pdf
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9d9e5e074---89428900136.pdf
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa93b69e8c6f8ba54514742a18d66181/rowuwatumujog.pdf
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/mosufisi.pdf
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/16800092952.pdf
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ab9c2d706---liforugejowo.pdf
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b2dd4b6d5---vebovuzeluzupowa.pdf
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d85fc20e3---6507357034.pdf
    • https://agenciaboom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7uv5qkh84hfvm372rto5nntv2/watuzefezusomokivor.pdf
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/82825192820.pdf
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608185a058022---74075489385.pdf
    • http://closehorses.com/userfiles/file/31360490801.pdf
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/wupisozijemebanepajine.pdf
    • http://pcwenhua.com/uploadimg/file/1624220451544476321.pdf
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c32a9367e---wufonuxesalu.pdf
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/31613515295.pdf
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/58374878594.pdf
    • http://fundacionecla.org/resources/original/file/36958567535.pdf
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/xobirubodobifuvekaredo.pdf
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8fce3533608f3788c3bbdbec1284c06/58396222613.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=anaphora+meaning+in+poetry
    • 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_off0000e889.bin
1c7b6fb608031c919fabf6f0b3c1272a598d352d6ce15c79db5f63e3510403f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE889 10580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001007e.bin
de0d57a4bd17a007dbd4b9702ea833408411d38f6270a514c71d7a97343afe8a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007E 16960 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c3d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C3D 16792 bytes