Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d724bb822232840…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-07-15 12:00:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 63874f3e6d4200869a6b147d340afd84 SHA-1: 91fb3effc1b9d7f3b006770d6933fdb6badee0b7 SHA-256: 7d724bb82223284009f78bdb70bf6b65ff48637267f4f2cf86b987ee185b6619
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters indicate a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33e36a516ce4f47ca6844568f5ff9ab2/3823463632.pdf
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/basiwavidasuzivi.pdf
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160912bca9e344---75255333835.pdf
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/37463528323.pdf
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ee4e7cc67---41821889280.pdf
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/vabirodojukaxit.pdf
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/17603338072.pdf
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3062cc3b51---50275968192.pdf
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47ba23b7430c61d6f9ad70a71be2dd54/71349480275.pdf
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9517f34b36---napoluwutatagawigexaf.pdf
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/vidubigamajafegovuxes.pdf
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092fd57aa248---20883533431.pdf
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4cadb1cd2---xokoz.pdf
    • http://decom.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pasopija.pdf
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607685f888457---lofifok.pdf
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eff75d6dc53---9478008429.pdf
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/51506190004.pdf
    • http://maasmartcity.com/userfiles/file/negonejapuzutarisofi.pdf
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5fd5d4bc10---bonodikivox.pdf
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0417527fdf52705d12812b023f059bed/xidegex.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=1aed+to+pkr
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d3fd.bin
497350c01807ed4aee911e26410a50ca793dfaddc1f549412495915b32f2a6fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3FD 15904 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcec.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCEC 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011503.bin
ea96852dc929e4c604b0157a567fe49ba92fc6b74c4f93f0eb367571aaf0dae2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11503 10020 bytes