Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7758fae0c12379b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 00:12:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 87e97925943e4bfed820a6ee1da2b05c SHA-1: 1fcfd772d2a2d2539212915a822023da057cf583 SHA-256: a7758fae0c12379b8ee859ea6325f8ec4446814229bc5f9c7b56d9656c8acd89
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates an attempt to leverage these sites for malicious purposes, likely to distribute further malware or conduct phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a malicious document delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1a6b929d3764e656387111840b4faa9/barubujum.pdf
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caf714fa6dd2fcdc5b6d654d667fb00c/lidavevusoputapamu.pdf
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d40c983cf---zofomi.pdf
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c7ffc8aeb---zojibemaramukadixa.pdf
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/61232820822.pdf
    • http://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/21557293758.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c34f76017d5---90130775401.pdf
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pugeluvajuliwurozozusafu.pdf
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/62510150886.pdf
    • http://nomorecpapmachine.com/userfiles/files/78564117733.pdf
    • http://chekeeh.ir/basefile/chekeehir/files/saruxatawajoz.pdf
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8438be5bd0---pajifilu.pdf
    • https://fotofidelity.cz/userfiles/file/68616237015.pdf
    • http://oryginalnedekoracje.pl/userfiles/file/solozugiduxosanefosapiv.pdf
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18f5f5b734---45372356326.pdf
    • http://lube-stc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95092929493.pdf
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c628751348---22906642407.pdf
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084208914dec---15754101450.pdf
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc0e2fd937b946b8970087c57da38631/29623149918.pdf
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/067c83742bae324599f360de71431919/99358013669.pdf
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/66608876449.pdf
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/422r4n72vq9kt14lvlpvhdrli3/22849390436.pdf
    • http://taxilitomerice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tirajedozuxasozawa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=listening+answers+accommodation+form+student+information
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec8c.bin
57b88d1a0315585c970de4a6b957476d4b00d0eeb4a5f0d3e5b0970b7fd45f3f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8C 10916 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000105b7.bin
51200f8d3479e48264b21d010f6d8c35cf42fd5091fe483ea6e3aa8e31bba3d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B7 16348 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011bd7.bin
c1cdc46592ecf18bae9e73dc66e7e59fc350106dd6dc40f8fadc863593780a18
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BD7 23964 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000150bb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150BB 16792 bytes