Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c240c70493a8a51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 11:56:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e141a422159e66ced322c23c22e9da55 SHA-1: 440853e5da0ab73ee73460e00334df1d199bb820 SHA-256: 7c240c70493a8a512a68d18e3b793ab904458a3ed53b994b0e934b926086ff29
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm to direct users to potentially malicious content, as indicated by the ClamAV detection and ML classifier flagging it as malicious. The embedded URLs and link farm heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-12/20210612113158816674.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aykutemlak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/72388114362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woods-china.cn/ci2/userfiles/files/20210622194635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/76570528724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b81cfc3ffac83dfdee8e641c9f79d7ae/24065751135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://breakevenpoint.pl/uploads/editor/file/gupojojunetanokaxivuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merlegdoktor.hu/tmp/99500048999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf5875bb75f---xokotilefimoxupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsinphar.com/uploads/files/lesor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021051802131273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1279df9e1cba1a3200c81fe73017b7e/gazogekedogatulomawaruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96g90ap1bgh8f287dqk4v7dg7h/79584331937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/69438255983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidneytexas.org/clients/861060/File/vaturotirozaxogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamotato.ro/userfiles/file/defedanepeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb468b9f33b1f14fc96fc40e9cfb5abd/19011216458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cba2616c9a---fipiwiwotelebimilawaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zzld.com/uploadfile/file///2021052812044430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/komazugisuwonokafebavof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6df746593f660e905fffdcc788639204/70032846303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/49215996079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/75850973882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/21568774444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/fozazonudalenejivasok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bae090c06---sunewivafuletumajorefonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+my+lost+phone+with+imeiPDF 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_off0000e829.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE829 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 5d7d0926927e04adc5121867ae0dccc18027b15af32c79710fd5340b4e536b83
font_01_sfnt_off00010076.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10076 16980 bytes
SHA-256: 3603d270ab2b36d38f8faa6b63446db985b2842ac39cce4b08cfda974f5f0ad5
font_02_sfnt_off00012d20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D20 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1