Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7feabca66c5bceb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:17:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 11cc104b49c75f6a6b675f6bfcd01e33 SHA-1: 3594e008d911233b36b385aaa9df7f8b4ab52dbd SHA-256: 7feabca66c5bceb05c6b470276782f54135f885da610d5f904afa8e9ce0f878c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high ML score and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of multiple external links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buval.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073085ee509b---95106338679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pagyesa.org/userfiles/file/20210607133557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/14171051951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gb4me1301jefcjt8j2vvtk28b4/42170321508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-hj.com/up_photo/file/mugefuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hicoweld.com/shop/fck_file/file/39669884706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/sigiwixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pallenberg-busreisen.de/uploads/files/gifujewavowot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49ef3ea6d03591f65410899a8566663e/30534984251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae2c0d11a77---79287421222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/memijirejepuzesos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/remikuxafeluxumodexivanun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/131cc6d1a09c550726efe39ab0963deb/boxetonajebajubibepazune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gavewodoginafezovigosiras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/guxijodetinatidiwuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870e85815c9---soxulopenofojijopozepodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/nedopoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njxinbell.com/upload/files/87648460718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regmac.net/userfiles/files/zegotadaxazexuwono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkkarsin.pl/img/upload/files/70052580843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88720796533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/gixedolawugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.ca/upload/editor/file/5210355550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northwestconvention.cz/data/files/movit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=dividing+complex+numbers+worksheet+keyPDF 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_off0000e656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE656 11500 bytes
SHA-256: 906ec42996f8cf1d9ff6fc359c5403dc0baaa87e5cdc52aae2cd4c4443ec69cd
font_01_sfnt_off00010104.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10104 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 1d64638e5be18e8d6e2bb10f6f2ba821221340d8bd8e41831786405020884481
font_02_sfnt_off00012e28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1