Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e153a2307b7758f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB Created: 2021-08-08 21:14:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2ad45b425a9ddd1262c6e3eb9b8df48a SHA-1: f8b363b55701f736d37ddceebe2f299c416e8c63 SHA-256: 7e153a2307b7758ffece005f04e0b8509768dbaf35d1d815579ef0473c0e136a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf81e0994de---69270983274.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bdf7dab4d7f94709301e2cbec1cfb98/48965085999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/kemolemusisonagevokupige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otelm4b.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rokewuvomixetejabenajul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e3031938e---79334535991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woxulibud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epplast.com/files/file/loxaluvorijaforogenew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://concept-art.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/52450772065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radeton-cz.vasestranky.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15701499412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d46c5a872e0---pirudopuvikuduveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cdbc5224041d4115c1233002ef86d07/mifiruwale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/75707469814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubslotalmatriche.com/calcas/file/tajetomononoxuzadujut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odducn3b9qba1bhmmctq04dmqj/ririwipasevopowaxene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6398c6923d---situdexaberowevezezaxupix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioterapiazabiegi.pl/obrazy/file/79776062650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohntraumgmbh.at/rimenipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32cf4c3d53c080977c600ace33d5d3e9/54791230209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f63bca08d89a59ee5771b14369ed367/99168442866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penal-garazh.ru/files/wifanipomafuwumasoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40613003951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a688831baaadda3f41819c73de336ed2/97883376572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tivati.com/uploads/userfiles/file/1779147581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongduong.net/Images_upload/files/fetokarowozapitosizaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=stikbot+studio+app+on+pcPDF 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_off0001199b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1199B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000131b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B2 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 110850a035d1873dc41fad6219f89e689251550a08ba5a35cd2c80cab6ec15ed
font_02_sfnt_off000149e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149E6 21000 bytes
SHA-256: 3dfc31afaf51e8924a00ecc88eb965e687692cc1da6dd174ee8180a2dfac4fa9