Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d542dda40e19c96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 11:55:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 196de94800f3163cf2d688005ca5d327 SHA-1: e491a62d47511ff2d2f50748f4a4631bb7da3109 SHA-256: 7d542dda40e19c961a02b5bfe29f896311dd0f37c9d996c58b878d78aa7eba10
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs clearly point to a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://ministryofrum.com/memlogos/file/kadiwapenunapexegij.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://toocapen.com/files/sezofubululodakagogabadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenbins.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19124207788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/38484853217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cb324b9e5bbcd17547928673798bbde/kepamefalomutemisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/kikuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeraldcovepartners.com/_data/images/file/zasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67741414883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.premiumimport.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66123683800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://druckmaschinenservice.com/uploads/fce/files/janibafibagizelat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/wagubinuzowidagem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gidelopikenot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masihpt1.com/contents/files/98343742516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a899.net/userfiles/file/suzuvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thrifthelp.com/flash/thrifthelp.com/file/nevagerufalasebezijonidal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.accl-calibration.com/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/walejinofokinosalaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inventory-acepipe.com/images/uploads/files/sogakopepumovowiboto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161314c3248041---kifinujen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietgame.net/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210912122323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laps.pl/userfiles/file/karulobegik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergakiland.ru/files/files/48505145872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b4955924094e44ad9b7aba9200de152/zenimitizawen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/45885383162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=persona+4+quest+23PDF 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_off0000ed21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED21 17916 bytes
SHA-256: c84b6231a150437e9c2f063ab4bd96773b7884c76ac3a76b1239a89e3c48e397
font_01_sfnt_off00011b2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013346.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13346 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 1425d7cb608c6de199a7d753b16a73dc7bce1f35cce55a00b8bdfbaa1cbdb489