Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7c95525b5d58441…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-08-18 01:42:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b5b3476dce9c68c86b55f6f4e6294533 SHA-1: 5b798c0656bc6e3e679d455b11a8966e63052b72 SHA-256: a7c95525b5d584414ab46292e0614744b7378bafb666b9e5acbe3887bad76f17
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing or malicious link farm. It contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://calebdobe.com/clients/875189/File/gosuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/83572903734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/26181533193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ping-property.com/user_img/files/42292275166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovalpolycoats.com/media/89169854203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/vomasodukifevunoluse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d71884cbd---vapizarofagikinib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simmsfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/98/98d47f1658d09d39d77ba56043454c9c/File/kinagapizuvarusimadexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/19471947800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-5/file/zokezodagukuwovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.at/upload/xawimexirakotewebixuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607360567f4e2---kufomigiwizibisuwakoxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/bimezabapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883dcb9f2aa---muzufuxurijoduwigeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ee50ca22f---zufifuvirenumaxajifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a461d0d7d74---99998786754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e46636c87c70386138cc0b035732f08/lebizuripaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd0eb9a87a---rexudabejesejasanuniwelaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implantsdentairesdesmoulins.com/upload/editor/file/61994970764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilayunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54122883179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boatmonies.com/uploads/files/5854328453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/litejerivediwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ofduj4pksdotbg0mfhjsosgmv6/zoziganiwukegivijiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08454b0bbf65210a1e3c1d9fe2da2342/turokezofofagedage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=history+of+experimental+psychology+boring+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ec45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC45 11416 bytes
SHA-256: b3eeb37e31c666ebce2902354f2f2157a07842bf581767bba6862b744520c720
font_01_sfnt_off0001069b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1069B 17260 bytes
SHA-256: bab04c36b74f8b1a9d1dbe2597e882e18bebd4bfc0c1b83fe660812564d25e21
font_02_sfnt_off00013307.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13307 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1