Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ba835062db481e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 00:30:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d8126d208236d1f14ae9311637e1f8b3 SHA-1: d7ca5fd2e4cbbfc135ea3f8bb19038474777d4d2 SHA-256: 7ba835062db481e478ce84b6b63b1c640a1a8afbd994cd5ec96991d34ce5fdbf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the detection suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9765

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://esteel.my/userfiles/file/72095176642.pdf
    • https://alquimia.in/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/rubinal.pdf
    • https://horgaszvelem.elelmiszer-hazhozszallitas.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99722379361.pdf
    • http://candemdientu.com/Images_upload/files/3159946331.pdf
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3n3hr2oqvq15t7cm8qr5n09cl2/98592615553.pdf
    • http://husplaza.hu/editor_up/wowinipexuse.pdf
    • https://www.benkorner.nl/admin/library/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87028973165.pdf
    • http://lizhechem.com/upload/files/29989953333.pdf
    • http://retailcop.ca/files/buzuxixawokorufimil.pdf
    • https://pratham.one/file/25705073343.pdf
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5457892891.pdf
    • https://ww150001.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210905065115.pdf
    • https://1snrpaulista.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67177632266.pdf
    • https://menokatea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20414901488.pdf
    • http://xinxinhouseware.com/uploadfile/files/8609588829.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614804aca8a7e---26747939150.pdf
    • https://tatvan.in/userfiles/file/kupujatusejifokakafata.pdf
    • http://kodemari.info/data/files/81058472392.pdf
    • https://partetesal.ir/data/file/wevikowigununifidi.pdf
    • https://nepalfinepashmina.com/userfiles/file/79526032944.pdf
    • https://www.solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75321346892.pdf
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210902163054757896.pdf
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dvo13mclttm7qb73qcaqhe5i0/550273294.pdf
    • https://doublehaircenter.com/upload/ckfinder/files/94285271689.pdf
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72881363904.pdf
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f1bf4801d522216668314fbcf8cef55/zumapobokix.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=kof+2003+neo+geo+rom
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c989.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC989 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e19b.bin
eb465182a25f6ed859d0f25aebe66a1851cd9e63c560c6f7202ab108cc8145bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE19B 24408 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011edd.bin
80595dc0af818f62a651a6c3541c75d118dfb8da656001ad971a2c9754b3f023
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDD 16716 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000136c7.bin
f4fd2d762349658fdd51671e06cdd8936c1ac5d40004a84c70dd08c01021c113
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136C7 10396 bytes