Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c2d0d8ba75fabec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:37:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a620e83d33a40a64a9a6007b0fb90486 SHA-1: f4168bd1ab82cc16927fd85c92975b7c54237abb SHA-256: 7c2d0d8ba75fabeccb4f16075d8e6d5be610a4daa58c83e0b379d664eed9b40c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://zonweringbelgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giriwagidupexoko.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b8ae41855---81318042770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/565b1ab8a937653a2e46d923f0dca463/53496660144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u204m21p7pt5s8qpe03lm1j86h/lukikufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canigrup.com/userfiles/file/rutovetugobarizezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d734c7ade2bfeb3ad91f06a65569a535/82598090966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoybowlramenandpoke.com/uploads/files/54096491494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34c69ee5b3acb531196eeb817294a19d/petakofevis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8e851052d---19350547796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1s631pie9t0ipjk6gr55u06mk/zavit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njuhome.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kotadalupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harringtonandlombardi.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/61763706422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auburn-companies.com/userfiles/files/51426470022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cappellastudio.it/userfiles/files/52806490784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thegrcinstitute.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32746107363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775d7a3676d---73400541413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4606e6f33e---dagamoxaposewudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b0d47fd34---depigejisatapijode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854e834143d---xujoxubifinizowerinewitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayernglobal.de/userVZ//file/rafowubawabuzapoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthodoxnews.us/file/jifev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c17e017c4f1e68b289e5edab81aafa0e/52301234947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/91408808903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dinakonobesuxesexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=enlarging+shapes+by+a+fractional+scale+factor+worksheetPDF 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_off0000c3d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE6 16092 bytes
SHA-256: e426f188041bde91cab357e2d629f4e3a431d9bd00a9640bf8533cc22d744191
font_02_sfnt_off0001057c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1057C 11172 bytes
SHA-256: a86bfe0518ee1a84972fb2feababdfe7dd7f5106163871a3c3962029e7f47911