Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7c89ac87fef650d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:30:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ac7adde832d2551314033577323494b4 SHA-1: 9e35d826cff90641d7635ed1b1723065e62053a0 SHA-256: a7c89ac87fef650d3d683754a29a3a9ba14f60ed630e76d361708a727f71657b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that lead to various domains, including compromised WordPress sites. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+image+to+pdf+online+free PDF link annotation
    • http://cl-metalparts.com/d/files/3117539043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeraldcovepartners.com/_data/images/file/80310563255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b0ff1a259---redesat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d59a93cbd58c757b84b67cf90f84599e/42877134806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989ecc27b1f---80200333528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc77ed06761bb45c3864c31093b1c71f/kapakuvowelelulal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/visunusawofomavubopagaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076582112362---panik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ecb91eb766c67549c23d249620d5845/sizefifakoxijazegikumes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/nexebisagusemobewaxonit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d3767d1ab---wamefeparojanarezekufar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ohj70lughv8cqq11vbk09rr28m/kusuxujaluva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceresasrl.it/userfiles/files/94515876391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxbeimei.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202108092149376834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6e59a38b03086102d0e99174ac6649b/17492236421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/18621184837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaseguroseprevidencia.com/fotosempresa//files/givaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1afklwjc5g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xizofegakexepakebegakaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71f4772d6ee454adca1500015c94e09d/75166032449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziconiavip.com/uploadfck/file/topumotifolaguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08c474409426687f18a439dd88e18354/webazutotivivemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/viguze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084594e55430---22749751784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6c8ad5c17e4bd9cd77c2a004e15ea72/vatekuzawupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pt2rf1ljunb808s6884a609485/detewebukotutefedazitap.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_off0000c521.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC521 17320 bytes
SHA-256: d9c10ef276f40d00d8984e35345bdee4ea9b60d730f6eab78231ce86c9b4ad76
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000109cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109CF 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 86cdb5d9e0151570376a7a9b0ea4bd52255cacb5accd79a8374a1a8b3f630f41