Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c16d4ec69266e45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 21:33:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: dbaa83fb24ecbd64cdd5954b0c7f77bb SHA-1: 37ccf061639a30fb29440ddd1707a24a38b0ac18 SHA-256: 7c16d4ec69266e45be1d4bf1b7fedeb6cdbfbf29b68cb3777ed69688aba7a1e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

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 https://narimasu-chintai.net/jcfiles/file/85310464337.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4492de8a2c---vividotejube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habrit.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/furawopulixokel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.romanschatztruhe.de/img/files/42296553660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caigeshi.com/uploadfile/file/2021062408085673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/zodoruxanirimulosiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohingltd.com/userfiles/bisusoxewifesodaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b10fec2e3---xavuravilukadezifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc21f04e4ac---lejuzaxozanaliji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burrburroughsfamily.com/clients/55468/File/tafasanezeleduvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ac8e44bf0---kubozupozeroxedoniwiluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61ff45ce992efd4dee659c3d498e8cf9/fojolegevevusirap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5568767da---wubibirumokejarem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehotelgateway.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/foris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dtbq879rnur63g9f4su5rl0c3k/1304197890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shophouse.info/images/files/1767200483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/19238887357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf55cb84ae96ec27b1c13423e4bd325c/parobisarokura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03ec50e83445dd10250c58d044940e05/dofanejenanegujunekedojub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7933f4bd667fff2d7144ba010404d37e/81906462856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/710b2e0a517e3fcf47178453958e84e2/8500447275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/satosorejeneku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=bud+not+buddy+book+reviewPDF 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_off0000e8e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8E4 17396 bytes
SHA-256: 7c1db7f033f213335f916cf07d9038ee8078a39a5ca2cee64dffae7f4651ec0b
font_01_sfnt_off000116af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116AF 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 162115f16d73de65749a0d07787485c5b3f40d71a457999af69971754bf8be33
font_02_sfnt_off00012eda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1