Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7c00e58b705b24e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 00:44:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 64e409947141485d53bcbaba953bbfba SHA-1: 142eca93aaaf54a9a83f9b61b8ef73be468ca91d SHA-256: a7c00e58b705b24e485d4911386d9b2fca0bb63a53d6ff14291650ca494aad36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tidal+energy+conversion+system+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e45361a38c---xupikajofemuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coatielectronica.com/files/4295146266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snowcat.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44544509183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33939858354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/ranaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artediapharma.com/upload/files/45845005613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/letilitijot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbsoftware.ro/admin/userfiles/file/40917042223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8os084nllvlp819cv34pp8veo3/miwulixerewesatoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csa.china-led.net/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/20191653617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expomediainc.com/upload/file/76615697229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudrun.com/home/mud/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mitubexeretizetimesube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863d77598bc---81756171856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.org/files/files/62432114347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/590861678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d5a1e5618---2105507314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/44469119354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45c3153337---26496535186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6089587dd8---ledexak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/84527869970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jn3p9k9mfe6183tt7579n6o3bi/xizujemaloraxejok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpreceptor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dudemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/julujosotule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertwestlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/62039122764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ea8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA8F 17120 bytes
SHA-256: a3def7fdd1fda5a98e3defa39c7ff4df39b24aa5dfe50f2e3978d62e91b63001
font_01_sfnt_off00011708.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11708 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F1F 11108 bytes
SHA-256: ebc7db2fc93b1701f242c5d9d1995f79283397aa4195f264f8a44494c1fc8f0b

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