Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7ca5a210f4812f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 10:01:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2a14f65b781f49bafc5ffd86ed1b6b4c SHA-1: fd7bd740fe726bae7ee0591b6fe5683d068b5eb9 SHA-256: a7ca5a210f4812f892faeda5dc5d6f9e0e6e74dde266ececd79fd17244e317cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the 'link farm' heuristic suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+move+my+gallery+to+sd+card PDF link annotation
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u03ptfp07ajukvcjk2729ogd73/zinidaliwaritedaxiduduwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7620577833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotitelor.com/contents/files/58039289615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmsone.com/eimages/file/darulobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/sukefodabukiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.ind.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86296569371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yongchengtech.com/uploads/files/202109041415371220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/84170353985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monographie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58219594992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/bekatemawilegekokara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harlit.com/upfiles/file/duxudup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms2gacor.com/contents/files/kejagiterarigaroko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dribblebar.pl/userfiles/file/11073750437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/35535411634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalba.net/other_files/File/92644949436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed5ae0f00a---levefoketojuxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvubaove.online/upload/files/tujesudidawatibapezazuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ee538519bbad9a6b24a9431e3ae5a5e/tivugupuvon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myatkinsonfamily.com/userimages/2754047406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orderpoet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bigov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c06dc6fef7bf6c4b8b08c935435cc61/17830458620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coral-travel66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32293055309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conditum.nl/userfiles/file/wimituxubebuzijawivov.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_off0000e3dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF3 10772 bytes
SHA-256: b469b1993cc0a860e39e524c5f320e363b98587e5c55b3afe78501388af5ac2e
font_02_sfnt_off000114a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114A8 16972 bytes
SHA-256: 51024a0cc8f233602f7e59d55c05d76c13810129ef93de32e354db033097d0fc