Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7eca39975d4fc7ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:27:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1cdc20069468f47308bcf02292923542 SHA-1: 1645ab744c77cf840f2c8a9277a4229e28dadcf1 SHA-256: 7eca39975d4fc7ce853ac5daf0bece2a95fd871887091900aad839be05b6534b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress upload storage, a common technique for distributing malicious content or conducting phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple unknown URLs suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d7dbbff5f---34832527191.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756d88ee1c4---tofididaxasuwebefobode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maimungkorn.com/UserFiles/file/50323682407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhstroi.by/uploads/files/samufurawed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaalu.com/luutru/files/jijogiboron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/67784705099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089618d336f0---85067515016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.net/userfiles/file/mopepunid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prawobrzeze.info/userfiles/file/40491848059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wotfiles.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88907138872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chp.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/turuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anneadamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fuvematoxuzaginima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kap-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruzekovelukapudig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8a61720285---jijali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d97273b7fa7---7468904351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c14e4591a5---rosuxejederelewitusizokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aloeverajuice.cz/files/file/falosubobenadox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngonluathan.com/images/ckeditor/files/72630666648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korea-labels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44809137416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/78631051855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210629234437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942d2186eb1---xobakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcc42569f7f---16193574710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bfa7ab19e2---2997586424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=belmont+stakes+results+2020PDF 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_off0000f0f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001090b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1090B 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 8b48bcea2babc03d4c69007c3c52e5f91726aeb71fd28f09d29815ae05086d3a
font_02_sfnt_off00012194.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12194 19356 bytes
SHA-256: 2b06f2b3d4eb941fb47a1d200994f9b0ceba3b11d4303ef5947a2c084367f922