Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c00218b429e30c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:47:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 834d3a73ba8431ff59552a7eb090bc20 SHA-1: aee424fd9c73ca26d265bec83753a9c2418d1e31 SHA-256: 7c00218b429e30c4cb0565bd4c815419b316de801a39ace28892e883326984b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristics strongly indicate an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://ntouioc.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dazonowukorofitu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97f9faaf1db7df6b1fa0072dc22a627c/depesugexeledifavapazumak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.biz/files/files/teditalod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0851.com/userfiles/file/20210903123322_mor45t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkim.vn/upload/files/lazipalawozofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/wimipuwona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playerpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16279084710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiszelyugyvediiroda.hu/docs/file/vobujalumuxomuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42287973200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709caeba37b---40471880636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/nolunidoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/5239428868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8dcd4395f4---vokabosikaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklcalabreseattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wuguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5f82c5debbbeb6772154653e66748b5/46276461169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609550678c4e2---potisevepowuwabila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishiosatu.com/contents//files/57886401580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanillasky-ch.com/images/files/7534614399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/thham4qp0cravul3t5q8j724q7/56071305197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4f8630e9b341f6a1de96ce1012cc735/18910572526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/48590425476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/57662824528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=compress+file+pdf+menjadi+sangat+kecilPDF 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_off0000dc54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC54 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 7f033a3a97d52ad70fa3f14e159a98b066457c5a65bea34291bbe0e737037d38
font_01_sfnt_off0000f660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF660 18008 bytes
SHA-256: 8573f1565e3dce6ec300dffb9aa0cb3c7a2419d921eb9724fe9d45c876952e9b
font_02_sfnt_off000124d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1