Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a3f32ce5a005c72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 13:32:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 079032e8f6e898518b76b1ac4cc31881 SHA-1: fcd923bd2f24584b86f743f459e57cc2591b2058 SHA-256: 7a3f32ce5a005c72e07afc91e169042332dd72b9c521c3a57442857737591111
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing or redirection campaign, indicated by the presence of a link farm pointing to numerous domains, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The embedded JavaScript stream, though not fully analyzed for specific actions, is a common vector for malicious activity in PDFs. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9652

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://digireg.it/upload/kuwuwuna.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://technoauto.jp/js/upload/files/lusazituzebek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/66329610671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdwy028.com/uploadfile/file/20210622174550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/futugetotobeboki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/xepowupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://romalasergroup.com/userfiles/files/42989577161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deitratech.com/userfiles/file/xejakebitabifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/650e33ee03af5193c8236743aafa077b/75223947279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ptmcm22ea8j6v8f00nm66co21h/89356622375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783d61496c5---bazufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/92717761053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f315e3eed---pidoguzafesejudeburo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93e611a70082c20ee2d69b6e00bcd289/japefumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/19230689353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/pijexixapod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/19573614581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/godevizowabot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bb3e74ae15cfaa38f896c28f1ac93b1/91000410372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/70887842773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fade2192b6---kifisotipanegulanarikine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/zefilurixuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d98c07e410fb915c1c09ce9bd025dfa4/fixaziduruwokefemisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamcatcherltd.com/userfiles/file/fetepuvumikajibavavatuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/948803754e095511329111ec574d89a7/80009015532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/nimuruwavenexinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c288c4d45d0---47245740124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=amsterdam+famous+forPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010b4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B4F 10352 bytes
SHA-256: efae915d7017c569ceab8bc8eed9310d362f1f669bc518b6b91e98f415a2588f
font_01_sfnt_off000122c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122C1 16868 bytes
SHA-256: c2abc8c1088728a227e60dcd055e015ed68a2bbdbe1415563c47388448e45ef5
font_02_sfnt_off00014e36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00016647.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16647 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 7d15b2d6d265aaca51dda18faee70a1b8fa9d95ed54cb111fb0895789092f9ae