Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7efc4bc3d87f51b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:52:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1788d4331f9812a3b01c21033dcd941a SHA-1: 9c67563109deba25e6e559455fbe79e2055b83ea SHA-256: 7efc4bc3d87f51b864bc448565cb6c7739c428f4deda898acea4394071815d99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites. Several of these URLs are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://soenen-pneus.com/upload/file/xopor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://huthamcauquanggiap.com/upload/files/fafisorutamibirulefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balogmihaly.hu/UserFiles/file/nitudilifukukelimodeguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroyindustry.com/userfiles/file/99092403771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-int.com/files/files/51712396320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefoster.com/pliki/72163561370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trompis-tondschungel.de/userfiles/file/69012999414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/24353689987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/bagabidopirefomiweji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ieltsadd.ir/cache/fck_files/file/visepezivilulavakilanowuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quetthe.com/upload/files/99397641055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/napobulafiponota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shanghaiqingchen.com/upload/files/1645449561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/636969c89d3226d82f2c8ba2cb14f72e/31935827820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conflictfreeelectronics.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/renuka/file/39754799344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9tfvaaf9ajbjao3b6pq18mmun5/vegopof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline2.bet/contents/files/lukexesotapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f3777a1d41---jimaminugufigufajovumar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electric-kernbichler.at/30085030426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch.hu/userfiles/files/jesafivukesivaxika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lmbri.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/63887366139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ri0l0d507f8vo4pvqucpe6hjhk/didezobije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/57402816972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bunny888.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18011818029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=kraken+widget+androidPDF 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_off0000df04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f716.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF716 18712 bytes
SHA-256: c56613f622d9f0e90e8545ade1d384f7cb9fcfc91ecbfa1dbea2846f7cb2f172
font_02_sfnt_off0001281a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1281A 10380 bytes
SHA-256: d7203f158bf4c7afba3fcd16da85be078f7f2e48dd13371e5edf3a48c2c6725b