Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c3150a9a67d681f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-08-16 08:31:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: b0160353f868f598065e5a8032ab8cde SHA-1: 4b7c1d556dffd875e29db51d59c541a1887100a1 SHA-256: 7c3150a9a67d681fc35f242df46d3acacad751becafb45d256cfd26afec46102
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a pattern of directing users to external, potentially malicious, URLs. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://zh-huaxun.com/uploadfiles/files/81373223628.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/xitukupasapek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/85929541199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/69573940684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmlukanich.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/9286145584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4fabd401b1482c98aef6dbe3fd041a5/waropufipikevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88340388891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a206a59361d---84325971003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veoguidecostarica.com/ci/userfiles/files/33726904485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbasantresidency.com/uploads/buruwizumoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-hanasaki.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/munejoligabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c856572f8b68780a33835a5328f294d/9824601574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/80962518043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a977f3ad73d---sezurukazebinizugunatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.multilandtours.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoxonibitekukesenodizepij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/gerefufasodalofeparolig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yokohama-model.com/userfiles/files/72740104324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0ma93tnj9u4qgebd2kkpj1dt0/gebivubabesonazebadefijaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shipnhanh247.vn/asset/files/16930204753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/tavazavoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramor.bg/userfiles/file/didazetujenalugokikudadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c990ce5d595eb076b4403a22c066c217/najuvapuzukesiziwulijula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moreit.ch/productinfo/file/bukugizajawujudofujuvuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerbreadvillage.org/clients/e/e3/e396b250b60561adcb946853f9f62e29/File/najajidodoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonebriarranch.com/clients/876969/File/fofopeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=android+material+design+ui+kit+sketch+resourcePDF 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_off0000fe9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000116b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B4 10988 bytes
SHA-256: b181f0f5e77afdcba5cf80faccc16e96e51207ac9059bfab549cfece2afb5630
font_02_sfnt_off00012fd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FD2 17584 bytes
SHA-256: b2a2ef7509e74f316c26f39192ee135bfbbc68d823d7ef5aaa2d19c028933325