Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d5ce04dd9ec1fb9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:50:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e0f9925f8b4383d5ff01ffb6302a871b SHA-1: 5ad9c5589d4f05af83d42a33467db3cf8b1bc69b SHA-256: 7d5ce04dd9ec1fb9b054decccc53f6b2e81a4147ca724ee193fe49f01f1740fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting domains, indicative of a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://moskvaznaet.ru/upload/files/31425431550.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cf88bdfbd0996991663ca8741362ca6/mimolat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd2fb70522d---loxuxuratodilepewuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c4e829463---fexofikisevedef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinedelhi.com/userfiles/files/88398417485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/zagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dientrotiendathc.com/media/ftp/file/38913684628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/87173636199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021791848316023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al71atridzo.com/userData/board/file/larukejumanifawuzeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.com/contents//files/mejolaxebizevekuxikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/20784881967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2c6d1bc663cf36d9cbc51b9e1c162a2/27752073102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/56506299492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33dihhj60ps2p8e0koq1i0j6mk/wagipuwejikunowepegijeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13806681ca85f73b48962247fd0d1837/42211321566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/xivopaneridi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51a77a62fbcbdfc3e4e0d61c24660a6f/vezaxovogelepinevede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f3c211ed958a71191150db7e6b1c80d/rawedidoxabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ed9adee6c1e620c9810f5fcb217e38f/79400437571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badoza.net/userfiles/file/87872264030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stagelight.pl/userfiles/files/2362756995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ismet.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/magetokedoloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/65932266120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sergeybazarov.ru/file/31577027603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakesideterracecondo.com/clients/41361/File/29862610475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=xerox+app+gallery+pdfPDF 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_off0000cd6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD6A 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 0f430d4ad37cde4d80da8104287c4e8d6cd2dbf873979f18c7087fe940f3868a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F3 18148 bytes
SHA-256: d9422f76339aea2978405f71d919854f67538c274e4d4a75211326fb7b230c19
font_02_sfnt_off0001144d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1144D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1