Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e781e585ac74304…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-12 23:21:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e6fbcafb7b4f4f935fc594689c1f11ae SHA-1: d9d55dfa3848df3d45bb418ffb05c2a5c45ab2a0 SHA-256: 7e781e585ac74304c30121382428e0dd526132d803ad90d5c4facd56a745e240
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly point to a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=articles+examples+for+kids
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/43872366331.pdf
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1dc28acee4---2217614734.pdf
    • http://teplolux72.ru/upload/file/5982587342.pdf
    • http://dogable.de/userfiles/file/jatijibuta.pdf
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/92990558974.pdf
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/guxepugusisizugitetetoj.pdf
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9h4vs0f2qf8u1kn6c3hnkrvb7d/telegimo.pdf
    • http://natproperty.com/userfiles/files/jezavulutulan.pdf
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cbb22aa29---mixipi.pdf
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6b51f02b3667ad5b104de99b8ed6f3b/gisaful.pdf
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/bijunoli.pdf
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/gibodifowaradiwomupezek.pdf
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/8384853917.pdf
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bc405ea85356c908d5a4e60448459c2/rexeki.pdf
    • http://sanarina-coaching.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74876333393.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d20de99ca---pavusojidila.pdf
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c53024b40d0---72508837780.pdf
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/xelanuxilolu.pdf
    • https://tajeer.co/userfiles/file/86093360109.pdf
    • http://blbr365.com/userfiles/file/1623959299.pdf
    • http://metrocars.london/survey/userfiles/files/tagilakagem.pdf
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcea81f875---18109849940.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_off0000f77d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF77D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010f8f.bin
c7fd8f35f9212bfef7a1099713556211f3317a86477e9f5ca81a97c4d14ee238
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F8F 17144 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013c28.bin
85ad655e05fe467fa3c9a997c9958a44a7320a33836ffd1ec33b0e1170df44d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C28 10852 bytes