Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c03992880986cad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 02:08:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ebd61de07a4c5e7e601c9ed325b351f3 SHA-1: 05bc822356009f7e8aec64227bcd191c47d4b1b7 SHA-256: 7c03992880986cad6e17eed7c679ddca2c1d37fab45dd87cd1bffe4bf9a9b6a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristic analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of numerous links, including one with a 'utm_term' parameter suggesting tracking, points towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=autostart+android+10 PDF link annotation
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614257ed2e111---venaler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bda.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nizopalibovogimuwupalil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianartistic.com/userfiles/file/rozoparavefolisigasimapir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelpenza58.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77474855942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hasmow.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/narobufinexawivubutimuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.by/userfiles/files/bozilivenafir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/28121032028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/xuxixajejeredugasapuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protrialse.eu/files/files/beximi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rpsbchamber.org/editorData/file/69472052321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shrlie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909152539857575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210905205043879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jaegeraviation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93335450052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodispirito.it/userfiles/file/rulalefabofejapejibapux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apotekatia.ba/fajlovi/ninezupekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citysoupsbellevue.com/uploads/files/34472512966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tagoproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47358918268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/monowebizisusuzujosav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suchanekstomatolog.pl/files/file/nugomiwuzokebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161419f6f245d7---3265473519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e4bc36fafd45fa030e48130dbe4925e/60588693640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nilesk.com/userfiles/file/75903521630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d26c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD26C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA7E 17960 bytes
SHA-256: 3a54ea6cf932823f4575d2279773d04262f512ff91cf0059cdf54653deb11e77
font_02_sfnt_off00011964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11964 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 74d8629900e0ac79555719d21258d42dd38810f7e3d7fdcf53126ffb0a67aff2