Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7dc0194396b070ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:53:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 966f2a847bd1a05455cf1aece8d2ff7d SHA-1: d93ae22c62ac144b32d86d88b6541d9bef6f2a08 SHA-256: 7dc0194396b070ca3644d29819e16eb81edfe83d4cbf90de4b6b978d74bbebf9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sistemas+embarcados+arduino+pdf
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bd91cd5394---pozitilas.pdf
    • http://gwardiajuvenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/livogigimivovaweve.pdf
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/36321519138.pdf
    • http://xn--b1akwe.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/maxexewev.pdf
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/78424965483.pdf
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d8c649993feeca71bafdb04dec89753/51167629480.pdf
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/logajafavelulisugevewez.pdf
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kiih65g6l8isubpp2sohp10r2b/24332230371.pdf
    • http://normel.org/files/upload/file/74132345320.pdf
    • http://ronaldtan.nl/images/photo/15613303181.pdf
    • http://benly-carson.com/product/files/datuganarudumowuf.pdf
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jfbl696go3tpdq8r9njsegvob2/tanojabupozefutozo.pdf
    • https://digireg.dk/upload/10271323682.pdf
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lederokuwulekazo.pdf
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/sodosifigag.pdf
    • https://umartravel.com/files/61796155670.pdf
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/pelago.pdf
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/971c3d8aeb18f36de3c8071a59303bfe/soxadom.pdf
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9t1nmqvnmls41njn8i9867iaj5/65621248056.pdf
    • http://faurerom.com/userfiles/file/81330025423.pdf
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/170db95ca7d42d05b69a59db0a20564e/roziloroxeguboxorunivuf.pdf
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/jasedoxiwowido.pdf
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a2b0103f8---kufogebipabidoxixino.pdf
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/dozike.pdf
    • 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_off0000de53.bin
5fb7ce20a72ee0caf903ca88604e83d51257afa2be1441d49f3b51811d360fb7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE53 11052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7d2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D2 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010fe4.bin
39a4df20ca563b3703cbdf80f0e800233e3939a061d8d0187b280674f0c0d3b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE4 19488 bytes