Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7663965bc183208…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-08-17 06:06:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 7a51c9d1eac5813f93c928f2cbf4211e SHA-1: d89f81b46d1d0f3c9e1aa04442b7d7eccdf0c5f2 SHA-256: c7663965bc183208b2f87024a2112db65a9638c5ff89b291b567269562879276
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The presence of embedded JavaScript, coupled with ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', strongly suggests this PDF is designed to lure users to malicious sites. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://francescofesta.it/userfiles/files/riwabavipebedo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/xozogavipegomelujuvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a657c55c73---80790096901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b259d062b3e9262d2acafe9b68e5f9d/26268574534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5e8c0f5f6---fifaxabud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grossfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/00/00c8ca1d7e0432e0ca4c178cf0a97985/File/xeneporediga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luberoff.com/userfiles/file/45921397844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sfasg.jp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lapubipiwolimez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteplacementagency.com/uploads/files/99836719436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arlingtonhigh1960.com/clients/881088/File/gitan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmkb.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bibebigigudosed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5133520726291ce965ae50ea1d4d4986/mevizuxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-g.jp/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bupimusosipabogitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/2801049746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/51125505142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/21280181631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asahiru-ban.com/files/files/zusuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/muvefijizuxugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01eb52c62ce7f6f9f528210057fc86e6/dinigajukovojef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ccb5fbee88---medabepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laureysnv.be/uploads/files/69587527463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608736340dc01---32743827227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+wires+are+allowed+in+a+wire+nutPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED40 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 5dce772126ccc4aee11cbd1e5733e2ffdfd7493c00b4ff96327385efe9fe5f9c
font_01_sfnt_off000105c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C8 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 0c708066c25bdc475ceaff7870cab11bf0aa9fbdffab4d667c84528623a7685f
font_02_sfnt_off000132b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1