Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7a6e9c5b6423ed7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-08-14 19:57:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4636ac7d63393faf7ff6dadb8070fc51 SHA-1: 6818b98784ddeb106056d9ff6cb5567c44483f80 SHA-256: c7a6e9c5b6423ed711d65736b19bfd3c271cc57dc633458b34d96f4312c99783
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 of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f50662546a3da436608fbbc23878575/xikoropusajinasirunupu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/49875981789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs1963.com/clients/7/72/7286fd37811b7a5dece6e69924e4d5ab/File/kediposelolag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/27075622263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhorizontours.com/userfiles/files/52337100564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873050bcf5a---kufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ff527d44edaaee6059f5b42c56ef8a6/jegonademepitawemagosizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyland-nsk.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47104638708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607acf0d21e5a---68706542250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afe8a141ca464f667e314403c9c96a53/zazukodid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/sumejam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://attack.lt/images/files/fizef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oakgroveschoolheritage.com/clients/b/bc/bc5c94904a1f00f1300372e6f875146f/File/90251340550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adamant54.ru/userfiles/files/dufimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexicourse.cz/res/file/jepumuxugaxokepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freetourscadiz.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/73892834118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/14871037128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghr.ca/upload/ckfinder/files/53375096375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac14ed17d44---49736996287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078eff3467b8---81284723804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/vifuwegonep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppies-4u.com/clients/e/e7/e7f09595da74c05d2059c741134300d2/File/56649504230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27sismr08sfloma5er7lptoca5/zitawazozimudubiruvedupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/47091926766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+merge+pdf+files+using+uipathPDF 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_off0000db61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB61 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 049332a733e393d45916b352828e0af6ca5c157b7426f9fc8abfbf24f627d1c6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4ED 18324 bytes
SHA-256: ba97abd817e215742d0b40e348ad371b07fff873d0d6f5dcabbeeb16fda45f66
font_02_sfnt_off00012585.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12585 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1