Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a64110e055a0982…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-17 09:00:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e90228293f085a56da65874b95b19c6e SHA-1: b06bf891d2c00a233fb79c21d4b1acab5d71ee00 SHA-256: 7a64110e055a09826e6a67b25e5e592656808e0850448b44781ce004fe83594f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a phishing page or a download server for further malicious payloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210616081744_2125321001.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cabinet-blin.fr/ressource/site-image/files/runumiregeguwobosevabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cb179b866962e479d8da981d17ed424/womixefil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079712c517ee---mesofopitujejakezovow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa9e73f628---sizarilexenovezupodukika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771d1f6d746---39303496018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthivatlieuhoanthien.com/upload/files/wamufamolarewuwiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindentudor.hu/userfiles/file/2022487545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/zobedawivaxime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/580dab247afc870d948c287a260f5ecd/lulonudevavabodureziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibanghanoi.com/uploads/files/82569723642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/sojogalawoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607acf0747c26---18162825715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whsclass1968.com/clients/f/f8/f849445bb2fb8f42e7c863050dc1ba38/File/41680371665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b2a6a7cd9---bataki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walthamclassof1985.com/clients/5/52/52060312c10aa816a718e90a19a6a7a1/File/7347902723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92ba8d163f7963cb09603a2e8d0a15fb/85271107656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ag8clqverqo5dn9m0k8mqna53/40455004507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/luzinolezubokerovenuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://granitemountainranch.net/userimages/jiwukeretofawudiriro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b962d8ce602bf2ff7a11085139c9c76/91399423074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4bec496cb---29146318732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfpackbasketballacademy.com/content_docs/voliselojujofepow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architetturaurbanistica.it/userfiles/files/40794557663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/69939310218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+long+road+home+little+house+on+the+prairiePDF 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_off0000eeaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEAF 17720 bytes
SHA-256: fb862eb77dbcb536065e167aab78fc893e8e56c0716676f242d413931aec0a4e
font_01_sfnt_off00011d64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001357b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1357B 10904 bytes
SHA-256: a28eb19b05b72ee05d1f26a1bc32812b5f40867d679bee1266f6a241b3406de0