Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f5ce208cfa99dcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 07:01:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a0f9c22afa22aa2f5723fef32c21137e SHA-1: 145fca1ce96a2d1bc6a5320c950c33a64050c45c SHA-256: 7f5ce208cfa99dcdbd12f9cebcaf814a5592c5cb7ec86ce14d4cd760ca003c19
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal malformed streams and a link farm pointing to compromised websites, suggesting the PDF acts as a lure to potentially malicious content. The presence of numerous URLs hosted on various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads, reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2l74ks53sgf471mal5ac6kfk6/66242880774.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809f2e02192---fasaravaneguxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljuboori.com/userfiles/files/88178938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montgomery71.com/clients/34132/File/9191541229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202105/file/1621194665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://picassogift.com/Uploadfiles/files/59664684195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopiergentili.it/userfiles/files/jugaxapumetugixegixuguwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a579bf5e8c9---refejaxavitiburivexom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54c8aa8f714a7833f42de9d509353892/xisumefolixakimekumurow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/pozuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e80e238e41---wekizajadobukodupebexezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/92096478887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meskerjager.nl/media/files/finatubevinadufed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victoryelectricalsupply.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3697117828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4d44b0cc9---69659308199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/8714366072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhs63.org/clients/8/88/88ec95b665b56da82b1de85f097fba10/File/podimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/89121800746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korytnica.net/data/files/97886058701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50a8a750659f300b2cbe081cc1405dd8/25959174859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090443fd5282---12792999290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec3fd6be8e8---41918285393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conganbacgiang.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/88093844375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=white+chested+sparrowPDF 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_off0000f248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF248 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A5F 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 542a5bbc7b43c9d2dc4572cb32ae56b68a96e4c535af7c7876c55d286f0cdae3
font_02_sfnt_off0001229c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1229C 16572 bytes
SHA-256: 99d3d34235b5a12818b5b0f78f7769ae3be9a5ba296c81e81574ce6ff264cbd8