Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a9fee8dba5d07a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 14:18:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fcc6ba0b6e9ddb6e07bf22edee25b0d5 SHA-1: d0a7a4d5b3d5e8edae7590a58c5cc83d28837bed SHA-256: 7a9fee8dba5d07a53e9687be0e11d6ccdedf73fc3d32067421fc1b4506570e80
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of link farms on disposable or compromised hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lijupujav.pdf
    • https://venus-forever.com/image/files/kapimeli.pdf
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/68156361422.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ukssi0lqtf6ei7ogrgg4gfsm0/zafevisotigeleb.pdf
    • http://shrlie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-17/20210917180428585942.pdf
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41f69cdf550ad6c5d1d19e078719b268/23196566818.pdf
    • https://7foro.exceltur.org/exceltur_nuevo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46655861382.pdf
    • http://mc-opony.pl/files/file/fewerinudodizimevowelizax.pdf
    • https://www.chablis-gautherin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38999200567.pdf
    • http://expertworker.paraleumarian.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/80030436511.pdf
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/26859220186.pdf
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/natabipafekonid.pdf
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/xaxenukiz.pdf
    • https://b7b.reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/raruv.pdf
    • https://pastravariaizvoarelebratiei.ro/images/file/jidosijisa.pdf
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99902ea27ea4aaa5d1a050cd4857c77c/20145118883.pdf
    • https://wangwangcamp.com/uploads/files/202109061748155984.pdf
    • http://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/kabesufudaxefopakatupuzi.pdf
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b252c1788e3dbd4f6813c1b5a9f1e79/45376869706.pdf
    • http://ip-malkov.ru/uploads/files/6154289415.pdf
    • https://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/jagoluwibazutorofe.pdf
    • https://ilonew.tasksplan.com/userfiles/files/38957965160.pdf
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341b574f4cf---75347895000.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=love+island+usa+gomovies
    • 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_off0000b6fa.bin
34ff2fb1efc7fbbf2cfd94669659671f50204b1510b1b79ff26ff6b01817b4cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6FA 15748 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000df05.bin
07551ebf232bdaeb736f07399e6e75106c4e48760bdecabb1fa1aa4652ce1854
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF05 10516 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6b3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6B3 16792 bytes