Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ca65b49cc36f1e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:35:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4fae83d82343e5796d7e0c9b4e355d43 SHA-1: 011470773ca3006a1894f25810ef5db99a24e1fb SHA-256: 7ca65b49cc36f1e0e565e228e0d3c16f24a0c87de0679a4eb5e8517cdb5f04f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to external websites, including those hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to direct users to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

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 http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/fonazewofukinop.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://williamshudson.org/clients/3/35/35bf74ce48b5c120232fd40fb4fe3e45/File/kewizelozogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717bff6800c---50141575751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strefaokazji.pl/uploaded/file/67520136482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6226166c3e---95777587997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b5fb80b69---87006328416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085350c1061d---manutexizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motocams.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7356475393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4903191ad9ce8995d5d631d9fae7eaa/ruxovidemabese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13e2cc3fd9b62cfedd9c5e8b7efa5148/bogowekazanibiwewozupuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetestmag.com/userfiles/files/73103632035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanhebiotech.com/upload/files/72147989113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210721_D7899661A1CA2E6F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimayphat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kagagexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/guwigofome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb1f26e8b70---35620868171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79d7812e1aa7961a53dc9d7ae5b01023/kukabojalawirobufuzagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowadhr.com/app/webroot/upload/files/63520461499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reopen911.info/media/file/sudarugibofigusezed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd7741014a6---63307739992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadinerogger.ch/userfiles/files/wevuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd05c19cf9---90454605876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827b1c0a2fd---fobef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrixx.lu/images/58403858496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmntb1b4f8jtu31h0l0pnuunid/29051918489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/jizixexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=santo+gen+rosso+accordi+pdfPDF 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_off0000c2a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2A1 17148 bytes
SHA-256: bc07e799061ec16bd0a8c316e8d2a176aa93dbe035dff7abfa1ca947771d31df
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE99 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 68a8181b141b11e5efd3cca8d82c278d22dab8ad79f12eb7a92dbd48dd2036e0
font_02_sfnt_off0001077a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1077A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1