Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c5dee799821726a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:08:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: eea0aac4b44ed792b6a3b2da9f7b1876 SHA-1: 019eea7676f79993ab8b758b6099b61643bd14f4 SHA-256: 7c5dee799821726ad60e27b952476f1c3f6335f5104b60d61e8fd1e18399df86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9hg416ubsn1h4ptab2oifh1fq/57343601433.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/95089378716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/15116062219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/376b7498d0e0026c229b39286ad6cf0b/wuneda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/rosobebarakasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/81810579081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/57224762818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1f042b2d1f---97498367333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5641c3dac10a1f6c69727cd60eda90a7/77231433700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7b2f8a09c37c67b121ee347b7818cbb/59791253972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e5104a342---lukuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents//files/61091913759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf55f0ef50---9427055310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9a10016a0---72735711401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc0f682bd5---xinezefarij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9a53d8e3f---45600295076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/79776513231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4dd9d216cebae6d04d83770028c714c/68644285906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photou.cc//ckfinder/userfiles/files/mimugujibap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a423dfe8bc7---28713574230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090808b6f908---jikumuxuxorenalebenamagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa93a7e6166064af00119bcb8b0db115/40674138640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/3451261262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2ae464a4c---62372128902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=fiedler%27s+contingency+model+of+leadership+states+that+the+best+leadership+style+depends+onPDF 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_off0000ff0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF0F 16996 bytes
SHA-256: 8a6cb7d63ecb0c83ba0d8e9cc1742edcef09cb9689942f93c528b7b0e0eb18d9
font_01_sfnt_off00012b7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B7D 11332 bytes
SHA-256: a4b7ba1131d9fcc99833b6d46f8f7b2271f04056550ad81333e86d7662b91d43
font_02_sfnt_off0001458e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1458E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1