Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7499b24d541cdfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 12:36:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 26bba48d723bb7683f2464446d4bdd67 SHA-1: 13ce0d332e7a7112663c23756fbce817151f9ed6 SHA-256: c7499b24d541cdfc361d1c068cab73e7262b12557025071935748272674f8cad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple links on potentially compromised sites suggests an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination.

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://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf66de7daf---kabobuzegefel.pdf
    • https://ropaalmayoreo.com/images/userfiles/file/vimuzupofugulipur.pdf
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/64619973510.pdf
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/duvipidagi.pdf
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7c8ee8cd4---99431364414.pdf
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b03cjvj9lkgvg16fjs4h7n9rr/99528324125.pdf
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcccff28ce2---47314591334.pdf
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/529b7190bb480aa16c6ad803afc22087/11030869462.pdf
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/botuvewa.pdf
    • http://halmar.info/userfiles/file/finakezoxupewajakil.pdf
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/6752121144.pdf
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2fd0722c2---60709754342.pdf
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/86256587162.pdf
    • https://numen-wow.com/userfiles/cloud//files/diwujufizujubapol.pdf
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/3341533341.pdf
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b71242b1c3---bivoxivipo.pdf
    • http://www.mostex.sk/files/articles/file/4128561991.pdf
    • http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/ramejav.pdf
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f4727d008---7113745418.pdf
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7k8d5nhok359a73p9i7o425p0j/nosuxiburadorumemit.pdf
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/jesulikidisakojexusenidek.pdf
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/gijemenuwomupif.pdf
    • http://gabortech.com/admin/file/rimusudefebasewugiba.pdf
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/96941490735.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=pobre+ana+chapter+2+in+english
    • 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_off0000b9ed.bin
55b84c345a8eb0a26eb9989ff3033c0ddda100d800165b0310d12f42843e5ca2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9ED 15032 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e00a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE00A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f821.bin
ed29f40a9fa7c749af8bebd6c835b24232d0e1e4931e081f80bf1ff12db7c0b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF821 10916 bytes