Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d783f39006e5150…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-18 08:59:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0ebec5ea98a4b65127eea4bcaaaa2dbb SHA-1: b2f209cc145a2d076133030651f4062c9d28cc38 SHA-256: 7d783f39006e515002fe85727868cfc297472ba831f919fb90c91047c9fcee6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing content hosted on these sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://ligneus.hu/upload/file/fofokutowezekibokezisus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/76847590410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9dec3ed985---90045642508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072cf343b4bc---pogewokerelixozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/13641153787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cad4f2bc2a8---26039582086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4a8799d098---zufopufufudegemumozibok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608706448dd36---kazelewom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc96ed7bcc5994d08b0ed6715ea1321d/zenonor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb1b7b9b813---45774021747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/modulobusuvatutiwexumuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/josukevaruxuguvinula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioituigiay.net/uploads/files/bovinufarugamamejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamkinhdoanh247.com/upload/files/mokadidem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4da2ed809c---fazagezutomabimolamodejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/92810992310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210618053307_j6wwlw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c788a702ddf---dugexegomudexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vq1u6t1tvg7nnujuqtscsiamt5/wifaviduzotekoxuwakeruga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b1522adcd---60968665893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0f10025d5---tufufogupivelarudiguki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210611060840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nl0opu62hlu7peqs2s7hn9bb57/4266254487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70506ff6d04c1418db823d7bcc1cb503/kopazozewinodojozuzededu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altinhediyeler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/dabedozegogesasunafoxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a892105beab029776ee98eaf2153c23b/xukuzajape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bostonmentors.com/userfiles/file/wepisaximozev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+cat+vomit+from+carpetPDF 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_off0000f390.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF390 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 62fb0802643478cc722a9e7a83ebb723d047911c3df08d15abcd13fe5ab6d783
font_01_sfnt_off00010b61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B61 16984 bytes
SHA-256: b15ce5c2e8f6f96832fca5e89d8e6051b5d09f76a6e90e4e44f3df348d0a8c47
font_02_sfnt_off0001373d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1373D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1