Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d0d9fb0f96f8aea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 12:56:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c8e3a4b818502ccbb6701ca83ee41b53 SHA-1: 4ba899a1c6d2920457e701dce96799fba0a9d691 SHA-256: 7d0d9fb0f96f8aea788ca670fa8888bebcc0d57b30c44c525642ccabba15ce2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URLs strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/pipebebenunabuni.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74f42571d442026bf9aa0e87221930b1/bazobukemebidole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9533768eb---neginumelibot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/18527718139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608637935875c---wobigodorijuziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4197bb93837222abca1b8d99a03397d6/kixotaludipatogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/tojikipivuferagaleda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.cn/UploadFile/file/F1202106291723086995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/do7s1s1f89ep3gnnoq7odv9g34/xabovegixomadupelewasaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b929869f3e---49236234790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxethai38.com/upload/file/gutaworemudibumuxekumena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc33109002---84463903125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slpclassof67.com/clients/45391/File/7827036009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98eb5d5bdace9b3a5d3bcdfc6c0a22be/fufotivujev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8655da78bc2b5f6cca8d7a12459a4fb/64148418902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087181e165dd---35040262091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guchenes.com/d/files/52251132800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52009384254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608720a70fc5d---17682162632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/bevunedisebenuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1154bedb7a894428af5563f35c50e00c/nabonulozov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/xoguvadamalemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/98353576606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k0gquouchvadrg156q2oqpovdq/jitobaxizegezuguletunawiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/89764631522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=she+is+just+like+candyPDF 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_off0000d242.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD242 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 3b286404b184546d44c229dca92db6051b7bc8a48d7e20bc2035d4aa5aad11d3
font_01_sfnt_off0000eae4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE4 17152 bytes
SHA-256: a124caadf8e52fbd6a8ed43bd237e91109f291d4a49f72d7c9b79a9f36e59efa
font_02_sfnt_off0001175f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1175F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1