Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7772bdafb682aed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-08-07 16:10:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b9b06000a2ebc285ba1246a9d4721d53 SHA-1: 0ac51caa857b1db356e1c28f50c6fc7e7d760f5e SHA-256: a7772bdafb682aed0f09f93d01f51a86be76acdc40821f28feeedac1c6f7d271
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this PDF is a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely exploiting vulnerabilities or phishing for credentials. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://nhakhoaanphuoc.vn/uploads/files/43690989234.pdf
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae51751af83---paperikem.pdf
    • https://scapetime.net/images/website/user/files/mojebikisixuboz.pdf
    • http://influences-vegetales.eu/assets/Image//files/naxajegisutafazuvonuxavag.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa858ab729---purofisojipevirunexivifi.pdf
    • http://innovad-ltd.com/userfiles/file/xasiket.pdf
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/48076748976.pdf
    • http://cinebuzz.be/uploads/userfiles/files/59237442303.pdf
    • http://personnelstrategies.net/userfiles/file/negam.pdf
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941542f0d96.pdf
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/584074485.pdf
    • http://www.monts.sk/upload_images/file/fexowij.pdf
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vc87u2pbi8hojphnd2k3ooem5i/70408835021.pdf
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be3607df3e---29895509381.pdf
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e32da58b71d---40484986223.pdf
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/55773202924.pdf
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c7f70b6b2b15b5c24580caf64e5bc5c/dezowiselidowizubilojajo.pdf
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2beccd447d2efa673d55788048d047ad/kenoxafifoxotabumemavo.pdf
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/981853d85640ce0569950dc19d06559c/gegegera.pdf
    • http://eichler-kammerer.de/87660869234.pdf
    • http://bowenlawmt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/90849787770.pdf
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610dbc3bb7ea2---vajudolizowudabekudepexa.pdf
    • http://eszixv.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fofidonaxaba.pdf
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fceaac00dea21f76c43dc185ff1564c9/98311426971.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=who+is+the+beast+from+the+chaser+married+to
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fbc3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBC3 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000113da.bin
e8a900fbb90b92bf00736a56d9a04085aac750ac4e07e2606a3deb558e918c74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113DA 10724 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c8d.bin
196a42b43d7d79743b14d18c291b9f8fb9b5eca0e8562f43a0dae754f607e35e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C8D 17592 bytes