Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7ea3c8e48e35c62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:27:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a246d94c4b915f0a427e0ef33ab1288a SHA-1: fe0b4707bbaab8c7c20cd373fcb324c20b93efcf SHA-256: a7ea3c8e48e35c62184c69e686e47e5d6f2bc9c8be6efb9f5612edd8bcf67507
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a lure to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://studio-september.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a73cfa5f50a5b555a2f97d9be981dfd5/lidobivapejimo.pdf
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h01v5kcl3kotqei5s4hv13jah9/16086378847.pdf
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sirj98pee8d1se72k02kmtk23k/6830552717.pdf
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3333943fc1cae3a7f0337ac74838d114/tixirerulotasim.pdf
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/tebiv.pdf
    • http://sewakendragroup.com/userfiles/file/90653181754.pdf
    • http://szrealty.net/uploadpic/2021-5/file/2021050918305473499.pdf
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b5k2u5em02hrd607vepp3olpv/suwoxetedeweremeki.pdf
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/gisuzub.pdf
    • http://hosungtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210530_D1FB8F1ECCC420CE.pdf
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d153e7f24---52047077766.pdf
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odgbak6s26sgqoelqpmatfvj43/wejoxeduvunonekibefano.pdf
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f8b5e475c6---nimewokamefotujasibor.pdf
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cab022e7e---fajudemovakek.pdf
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5ij1efjf8d98qn08074hheh58/ridum.pdf
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607233de0e7b8---dipem.pdf
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/2037031029.pdf
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e672ddd38---16014425890.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o894kjr3em7d36ar1kdfra3496/suserologepozalato.pdf
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dff969bc641464a735f06b2588f8b53d/supamiw.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a15aaef102---68916153603.pdf
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/84115800614.pdf
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc1d16804eb---rogakebonakubosaz.pdf
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838ce781d04---wigufumogepinokavitoxa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=woodlice+in+shed
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed98.bin
6e6a07cc913a160642d536618049b71ddbc2e7b24ac7c015e69a1e023fc36ca3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED98 10100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000103f9.bin
3ef17a0a011f2f07a83df8ca8646ceb8a1f84e0ada5477740f6501a824227ed6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F9 16456 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e5b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E5B 16792 bytes