Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c9e0f03d35a6fde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:52:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: efad8980bfb3ad9937d41d084b19ee34 SHA-1: e10dda47f31a04d44ff920ef4e89975379f1e662 SHA-256: 7c9e0f03d35a6fded69f20f6f3e8a245bc4bcba17c8265f702b025faed471ce4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and uses an image-based lure. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/jugipejodododatasem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/bazawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/wegewabaxopater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/jitoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmrealty360degree.in/userfiles/file/33202152457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083013bcc5be---zaxenofunanujovexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d88c326739a---50272251900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akwarella.pl/user_uploads/file/kedog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b04584316b2---14292629760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmms-online.com/assets/file/19787877522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmvh2vg6hb2mmasvqjohl02peh/wibimewox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o96lb19rl83na37u9jjkjbl903/1541019298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c561712254---20854778943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceaaef8386f---mowamuneruruzesisisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.com/upload/files/vojebikuvinaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c47d1413c---15222492762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaushalango.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/pulaxenagimufab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d929d58bf47bd00bab24f84c385ec6e5/12929640581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/vevatuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16128d8b22b614---masugev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/29040374341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d4a497d3ad3624f340cd419db1a4ed0/75182951986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/90457513193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=simoniz+pressure+washer+1900+manualPDF 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_off0000b37f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB37F 13944 bytes
SHA-256: d107d6ad71c89102ae39974956188382432493eccc651987e1b2ff2c6e6c0f1a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5D0 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 87c9dafa44b10ff84df481b28ff77cb6a144f1be1bde280155c3464d4c24d77e
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1