Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7cfd0397d12590b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:13:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1859f959a65f83c47256be0fadb2b1a6 SHA-1: a92ebea1774a823f543da735c344d07ae92b4e99 SHA-256: a7cfd0397d12590b8a9348799a702e2e2ef312bd549019f537ea2c983191948c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. Multiple heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised websites and potentially malicious content. The presence of external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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=namma+kalvi+11th+physics+guide+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/dukowijoropurerixukokip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01c01bc51361c1cd22a57010d97c65d7/77878083449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiko168.com/UploadFile/file/20210902063420453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cf09f20a0831183552dca55b8d3ccfb/debigaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmpallet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26410208115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/dokonalerabasilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7b07c1a34---87905733145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jedosawutan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef58d3960b---31837572335.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/86621623089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e844cb40a7---47924880525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b233e9004---manabidamofalujawanofirib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iglozawiercie.pl/zdjecia/file/wokijarokeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074ade3efa9b---lekesigavesitofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/54821429421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepankarbasu.com/FCKeditor/file/26515906415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9381b709fa52e86e218b9aea3bc9d65c/95866671674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/nemibowozerip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5a7d38064467f30e864bca0af2580ac/lovekaxutipasoriwateraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ad206f43a30025bbf1e4010e2e30848/15271545336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d6c4f63a21---33280904521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943f637d15a---20964629737.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_off0000e550.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE550 11144 bytes
SHA-256: a9f51bbb3ea75e018363ef4c3dd54b05540e07770845c6c9e1c63471e1534be8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF3F 23144 bytes
SHA-256: bc2539d83f02ffad8b7d90379f41e3e8a6c28100a036e40d40147689748c3308
font_02_sfnt_off00013b3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1