Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7230f9955eb8e47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-08-12 01:51:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 42f43787e4208197b3287789924fe4c2 SHA-1: 12e847833ebf93b8763631300f3a9ef0d4101d54 SHA-256: c7230f9955eb8e4739dd17058b87a41629c60d5c97d9e34ab060cda21747f32a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, likely to obscure the final malicious destination. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to click these links, potentially leading to further malware downloads or credential theft.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qn8ov2k296u6nlop315lphuop/94407660002.pdf
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895c4f86d1c---76155854364.pdf
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/59193581063.pdf
    • http://ultrabeauty-ff.ru/userfiles/file/78490243547.pdf
    • https://nusamulticentralestari.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/tesavij.pdf
    • https://e-ceramika.pl/userfiles/file/25636843774.pdf
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/39996610876.pdf
    • https://kaktutzhit.by/uploads/files/84160213751.pdf
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/59190935684.pdf
    • https://genia-groupe.fr/images/files/valusovib.pdf
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90790308510.pdf
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/xetimudavowupasinekatikoz.pdf
    • https://kueapem.com/contents//files/89538470096.pdf
    • http://contextuae.com/resimler/files/kosulunubifebaroxapizi.pdf
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920d728607b---fuvudopipawivimaxi.pdf
    • http://www.dilipprabhavalkar.com/images/file/zugojilifisegozawutat.pdf
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vuqipc1pr3po6kc4vpv8kr84u4/jowuvajekonimubajosu.pdf
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/dusikidunajowusozisef.pdf
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b4a50d968---surowutuzudurabemovo.pdf
    • https://marmarases.com/upload/ckfinder/files/77644153008.pdf
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/wasabededexodusazivev.pdf
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608799b1aed00---viturizagotogopibuxutato.pdf
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q16ceqt7i9l0nb7c9c9fo4e0t2/29847648913.pdf
    • http://vetportonaccio.it/userfiles/files/98105257346.pdf
    • http://www.optimizecost.com/admin/ficheros_fckedit_subidos/vuxipunofebaneke.pdf
    • http://tznjl.com/userfiles/files/66582404419.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+environmental+engineering+5th+edition+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_off0000da7c.bin
afabd129a9f6f852d65e52e4e678d9881cf40fdfa8905edb26158f7d70264c13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA7C 16544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000105bf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105BF 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011dd6.bin
e7f1f96d4619ee75d0878aec954332c350012fbf142ddcd5d6003bbadd74d131
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DD6 11148 bytes