Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d2749127715b4d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 14:50:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b8761a30a43bff2993efbbe58cc18d3b SHA-1: c39e25d7909f33e7363c94bd4ce518a097bc3a70 SHA-256: 7d2749127715b4d1f420e100b06cc659f99ccaf884034ba26bc67f92c782d475
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+three+brothers+story PDF link annotation
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cd7d794d3aaa243efb601182938d1a0/34618741414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798b3ebafc3---73373609162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160918f4a92698---valedeliselopujadivimegos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/fevose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jordan.si/dokumenti/file/bevufadirawipidoviko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4948033fa0---mutevovenez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9b6a3fb14---jofewumidazixudalisolido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibvtjh69lfghql7j2140cehi3l/fupemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5725ecea8---kogifatufimevorilakavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087554fea3a1---jevepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mmpdia6cs64r890s0fr9naqrm/65095724864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/xewagatimuxesim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/godabalisitukadobujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/20651566915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/golitapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtipartner.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74492092365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/budiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deckdreams.ca/clients/3/34/34055ef41782f8f15ebf372c1e39ecad/File/latamijewerarolizebutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f34e74534b---dusexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrashed-alsaleh.com/userfiles/files/lepobaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lordpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/45990761061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14189791055.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_off0000e95d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE95D 17616 bytes
SHA-256: d18c02748deb9a054f0906082bc1d31a50fb9d4091d035ee7e18e353017c822c
font_01_sfnt_off0001177b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1177B 10016 bytes
SHA-256: b117f9b99a73f93c47bf20bbf3fc255594b99c794226029d39869779c958ed1a
font_02_sfnt_off00012deb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1