Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e7a428a71204693…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:55:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 80bc1ee24851a17ad02917fdaf713d4d SHA-1: 959b0fdeb7799e15dce9dce776912439437c18c7 SHA-256: 7e7a428a71204693643a3ed5b40c6bcc17b43850fd927c2e23c3f15e93e38745
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, with ClamAV specifically identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The ML classifier also strongly flagged the PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially malicious external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bioterrorismo+en+alimentos+pdf
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608978bb015db---21377573257.pdf
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/242306c21885e3c85714d3bcc7b721db/40609930488.pdf
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc947bf2a9---dojikikewapikizebav.pdf
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210517190527.pdf
    • http://uptownchantilly.com/uploads/files/4648792432.pdf
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9aceaab77---20405248189.pdf
    • https://bunianco.com/other_files/File/zetunuvef.pdf
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9f1fbf81b3a1fc8d8955bba2ded3f8d/33065343343.pdf
    • http://medicamarsala.it/userfiles/files/28608309702.pdf
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/mosajadog.pdf
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/60e78f4a4e693.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicomancini.eu/userfiles/files/nixerifufotepoxupituj.pdf
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35b8a21758---xomunulefaveb.pdf
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b8230c576---69450450877.pdf
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ahjdvvu3nmpmtmv85do42hc5n5/50425071663.pdf
    • https://ntct-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tosux.pdf
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b5fae1a7a---laronufegopanudujuji.pdf
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608550f205416---38880406816.pdf
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/36146307550.pdf
    • http://ypdtools.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/64871847537.pdf
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23095afc9ebb4b98920fde5c2a726f6d/rugimivamesepu.pdf
    • https://adreshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/kixiwelafupefeguwexituw.pdf
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/97041421324.pdf
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/mapifojuzesodinu.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e68f25cbf---dugogejeg.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_off00010b69.bin
74d9a99aebaa131dbe9cc720bd33579cfdf3331c6fffa253b1ef2701086760b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B69 10712 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012401.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12401 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013c13.bin
3c3680788f2e2acc084af98e06474c02cac3adfece7553ebda6fb978b4051e59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C13 19284 bytes