Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d7a8842f9e123c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-06-18 23:53:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1fccc7b2cfe60e4cb75cc9dd53426de5 SHA-1: fc35c0d1c8d240ac3564d946f626d1d37c697f97 SHA-256: 7d7a8842f9e123c621a46da62aaf68f1540508c1cfe50885fbf19326c13c8bf7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, likely to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to the 'Uppena' movie, aiming to trick users into clicking the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1fbf5e57bf---mapuwetokakiguwirutubewez.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61b52ef1e8---bepiwopejebarapilajuboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3a9e50e81358032f0017676c07021be/givakasuvolofix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7fd0050179---82512477692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5r5adu0kmpqe9n6c8kj5vpbjvs/nesobejolixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geluidsadviesnederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71845674142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e30062218c---12133648266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/18564005593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c170a93b4---ligasapew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file/%5C/45417056173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/210520174948729235bbn4hu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/89905513712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073218dd4a03---nelabodubejegojurasebigej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607773d39ed6b---tidelazuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyags.com/editorResources/file/%5C/52266028467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/21758679527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wshs67rocks.com/clients/9/94/942520bde836a0b401740df6f3d23d35/File/57935394591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=uppena+movie+torrentPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF24 4804 bytes
SHA-256: 1f4fa728525f4d286a759306f64f7f0b7209017aaee62f0b171df7aae454406c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF71 11540 bytes
SHA-256: 900e9be2f20f37b7ba5cbfaaf17a3ffa3815cbad536c5052a3219667f7e2f381