Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7361601e8cabb29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 12:20:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 154952099b62a72486fdf9cefa8a0f42 SHA-1: 140347817d22ca16d137e133e1fa0fe19a22c384 SHA-256: c7361601e8cabb29f1dafd6311f98f6fed478ec10e35266ed37f6515cf3fd15a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the document is designed to farm links for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607306220db0f---sogudafonefemujomitisijox.pdf
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a849bec25db---69735200269.pdf
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/bakomozub.pdf
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-5/file/mowoj.pdf
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093046b614ce---nugoganad.pdf
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3749b540c7f8c2ecbacaa21eb4334085/nagixonuvirelu.pdf
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c835b937cbb62a0ff510be0ac963ee8e/roxagujukadevorigam.pdf
    • http://freehajjandumrah.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/65400454023.pdf
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab73576fbf---53651871195.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba13df9a4e1---nejenekadakonosadi.pdf
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb942a5328---lotepo.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8dbc141f7a---93750922060.pdf
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/lezedozabola.pdf
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5a5cb7ae9---vejimanejerowutuxil.pdf
    • http://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/lunonapivaregow.pdf
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/107694ae0b15ec38706874aa8160aef1/13143454123.pdf
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092bfeba21e5---kugimitixojeb.pdf
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920f2e0d812---fuwebojebosupivi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=prius+c+service+manual
    • 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_off0000bfef.bin
5370671f09bb8453f4d0ed5b1c1b978ec8591f0e2ffd9430e3b3f00c98bc31a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFEF 10340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d740.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD740 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef52.bin
a5a278d878fa16612161359d2e7aba053c972235aeee5e5489715649dd4efbc2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF52 17032 bytes