Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cff01358c19a1c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-08-15 11:53:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: fdad756164deb115347f4250e9e00e0b SHA-1: 470387a76c45d53a910cdfbbb08bd911ea11d7d3 SHA-256: 7cff01358c19a1c6b4c6981bae03a9888cb50ca679234879823fde77afc89f94
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be redirecting users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+de+comprensi%C3%B3n+lectora+para+secundaria+-+fichas+en+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://boletin.alicantehosteleria.com/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21385390018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/15810953976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9acvn51fjh7sfb4h7gqnhfkotr/56931645589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/vavorixilidagila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2e666160176a7c776f00cc56df351e1/nubaditikewajavifije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuderieverdina.it/scuderia/userfiles/file/55869796274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l6uooj7bn36p4hgl7l1tntgkub/tafineninometuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/bumuxirikukelos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160923d1ca994e---jifez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/zefikevunitipegotet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/787e4a3f2202933757ef7ffb5be39729/jefozexebowikajapuzexejol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/34168714386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab72c31f671---palemafutopuvosufuveluwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodgesmageefamilyreunion.com/clients/c/c9/c95619ca3ec29dd030dc8935b97378d4/File/57065878514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/botarilojamixejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083bf204710c---49404189892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d18b6d4d7---17922221774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potravinyav21.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rawija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a211ff6b92a---25180049609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prattsofdouds.com/clients/d/d8/d85aab9f4bcbae69c8358f7a9990a0b1/File/duzewateborigowuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e9f2c0cb1---siguvapimiled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c20b5f87dbab49abc4fb5601989f7a6a/fuwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071753f2e32a---bunuwusubusobuliwusolasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danburyhighclassof1961.com/clients/b/b4/b42d7d7907ff1a67dd6fd366dd3c6775/File/60155672604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/28688888893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609baac4e1e03---78855659211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e609.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE609 18460 bytes
SHA-256: cc4675f4ed2c20ca89ffdac1d3514d8b5091dea26d36dae80b09e0b4324e8f9d
font_01_sfnt_off000114d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114D9 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 9e3e17a9cb0bd8c9a8a4162ed95542b4def5405fe75a90694538d39a0e0b6d81
font_02_sfnt_off00012ed0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ED0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1