Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c36efe73ff2ba28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 10:01:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: a8c89c0c95edd958dc0d1eafd09072b6 SHA-1: 54d3be787aa7dc85317cb4289360026eef4c0227 SHA-256: 7c36efe73ff2ba284cedc6e22e702328f7d594a52d0c06ce47728c4ca2576482
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests a phishing or SEO manipulation tactic to lure users to specific content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://soenen-pneus.com/upload/file/nabulelonomonej.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vico-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sixudozotiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/femivupowumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://licausi.it/userfiles/files/52060331186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocrangsuthammy.vn/upload/files/51208676515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wotfiles.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33860458025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com123.vn/uploads/file/dilebokagejolusito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nucamsa.es/userfiles/files/3682219841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71779c5edf53e34e0d094a7f798ab02f/ruges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lejuriste.ru/files/file/xuvutimefagujowaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sibirprokat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kadajunifepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vct09gtbeiqr8jgj5gnisnqeil/42750250688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161417cedac27a---ganise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleinwestor.pl/userfiles/file/85640163198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibrpjoaae2.specialty-match.com/upload/files/33542608774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/mewinafinewositir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140bb85a6e81---1368503225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tangiahoang.com/skinkorea/Images_upload/files/vobutuzaxufefimene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://open.ua/uploads/ckeditor/files/19871815547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28a2fbf2d3eb8b6671972c32077bbf09/73816415676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeneifogaszat.hu/cikkdata/files/jukubosegejasowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61410911753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energcomb.net/cms_enercomb/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/87950047005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=kafka+on+the+shore+pdf+full+bookPDF 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_off00011038.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11038 18648 bytes
SHA-256: fc906d1f770c5ebdae003e4e5d70f6950224e28d6dadc306b1da07d5786af60f
font_01_sfnt_off00013ff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001580d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1580D 10828 bytes
SHA-256: f797eeac972f572239e10d7c608701dd5dcda15f71b178e84e20683f83c142f0