Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7f3ed98e9912533…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:57:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c3227ef020b7031d132d2ecd3dd264d0 SHA-1: 2ac2e1426b4de27529db604385ba356121b5f705 SHA-256: a7f3ed98e9912533c5c510f33e8ba5f35693d9605c8570e471504e5f58325056
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, which are characteristic of link farms used to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct user-facing content, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious intent related to URL redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=meningoencefalitis+amebiana+pdf
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/82874252712.pdf
    • http://bscartridge.com/pic/tujosajutalifadefutewosa.pdf
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d32ef75fa1bed2c724069838d8078b2/37079480658.pdf
    • http://rmgoals.com/userfiles/files/joxasufoxofimukenoji.pdf
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a645de73823---xejerijedomufinatazazil.pdf
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/viwixonoganebizolarulu.pdf
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/26773118852.pdf
    • http://ustunongel.com/image/files/32382313799.pdf
    • http://ilksolar.com/Images/Media/files/bugazodamutowovuj.pdf
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/37230235102.pdf
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/43183288510.pdf
    • http://grodgolf.com/clients/f/fd/fd83fa7079552abb47853a85229f74c1/File/86447715197.pdf
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39al30mks9e94c3n79uthuoqn0/80011570882.pdf
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/miropavujovufuzekova.pdf
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7a88920369906e2e7ccae68033b47c1/furafipikuv.pdf
    • https://servicepapik.ro/files/90858731572.pdf
    • http://ilovechardonnayhills.com/userimages/41777852885.pdf
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/kaxutoparezofeviv.pdf
    • http://smartcevent.com/clients/871459/File/66625012789.pdf
    • https://tyeetomsfishing.com/userfiles/file/58720559848.pdf
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3itmkv2261k5n13c0gfli5coi7/lubip.pdf
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/napamamisezuwugezim.pdf
    • https://ventadeterrenosurbanos.com/userfiles/file/63069560978.pdf
    • https://kisikana.hr/UserFiles/files/suxemopigewa.pdf
    • 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_off0000ba83.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA83 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d295.bin
49cf0b4d088963090d836cb5446552865b17c609fba988c054a702f302c5a5b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD295 15640 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa3d.bin
22256d831a2b75b4bad8124788b03b0f8a32d9e3ed2243e8b8b77348fdd9133a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3D 10996 bytes