Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cde7ba5571b755b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 21:24:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 091360e3a42becc402566ddfaa8bf820 SHA-1: a06035f541984d65010f09f1a1f7f415abc45a67 SHA-256: 7cde7ba5571b755bdb31cc25f9129157f2c7a3faaf0bdc59292f9e6b03781e0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate an attempt to trick users into visiting malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://pastoret.it/userfiles/files/fanidotowodosipevoduk.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adrfarysz.pl/userfiles/file/tagokob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlaenvironmental.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/65434088283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://surupaceanu.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57947748328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aa2200799d---kuriderovosuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yugreat.com/filespath/files/20210902121125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungquanghieu.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/77176471964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sergiomauri.com/images/file/88267537960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/file/1616492765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee3682ab8e---kamozes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hizirferforje.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/images/file/tabujovisav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biroestarsa.hu/uploads/file/rawomogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/77977713894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161431cc48d513---56021430870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hv2barrier.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nakobiwuwema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternatifhirdavat.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vufuzero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogeologicotrilobite.com/userfiles/files/kevofulosiduzoxukepade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/68439010180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montesantangelo.it/files/files/jezazepatusorutawumupato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/24212140720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/42042093896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch.hu/userfiles/files/diwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galerieportelouise.be/userfiles/files/57308491084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avrig35.ro/uploads/fck_editor/file/folelapokivavodisibapiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ae8f0ff62---61955862215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/34778526646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=moto+e4+updatePDF 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_off0000cc73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC73 10044 bytes
SHA-256: 7181e63349ce709d9ad3f845db23459970fd79b0f70e0c228b302110d70cbe57
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2EE 18584 bytes
SHA-256: cddd9e88034817472405036c454b4721e080a68c95aae822f997670e383e972c
font_02_sfnt_off00011339.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11339 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1