Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7c20731158e3565…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:51:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: aead6543e9269290ffa382caa58aefe8 SHA-1: 111699759e1f2d50309518b4336e264092218939 SHA-256: a7c20731158e35651b4b7d35572e1947e413540cbfc16e6dae4562b84287f3c4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised websites. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to redirect the user to these malicious sites, which are hosted on disposable or compromised infrastructure, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=principle+of+legality+in+criminal+law+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900d3c39246---43761453665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea0a9e440b---45519065549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viermaalh.nl/Bottesteyn/Site/afbeeldingen/file/64454177099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/30646733428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyrun-arser.com/js/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php/upfiles/file/210823174939948733au388z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f835d7b8ac0ad06d4a23eb691bc0347/92713771120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wowbond.com/upload/Fckeditor/file/76432223867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161010018cd5b2---dubewuturulumiremi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972c44ae001---mivafebudewotibepalon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guclupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/fakikawibazeravev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39025d5c9cf0cd3bac35f729783a04ab/2291015726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kraftyz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82770882747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68ddc18fba---mokaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/67495860107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/vivifagefeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rm-parketi.si/uploads/67060048301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/bafenonimezasizem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82299946448668a7a1b21adf06593ffe/wasuviwifisefufabosarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j0llmvhbc7jdgsl9amkg18smoa/xidadimuralodedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/4218404525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/64294053415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekreativecompany.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/22471296930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f4e75f1d35b3e4618e11a60f4a52de9/5672554277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec6aff278a---83043831974.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_off00011770.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11770 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012f82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F82 18928 bytes
SHA-256: 11d02108b2f31b141bee0d6c55c341ea91e3c6991dce4627b4d6e4dbf422323d
font_02_sfnt_off000160de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160DE 10996 bytes
SHA-256: eb4314dab7e5c139893b9a2662dbb7d03486013486173cc3cd407b74adcadb92