Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7a83d3f78e07220…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:51:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 92ee4fec76d78d28e33de9bbc3bdc3a3 SHA-1: 571cfd65c1d81c7f4002658859cace40189585b4 SHA-256: c7a83d3f78e07220dd78abffaa5dce445cd5f879665ba1fe49cd7cb64728c8a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://letdentalab.com/img/files/44296374795.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a4fc4e91a4---vosemozum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210714024846_1731793935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/67052825369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a715ceacaa4---56284271984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seattledesis.com/fckeditor/file/18106588532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac713edfb8f1009eb48d5f96b90cc9dd/34374389199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsdarvin.com/files/7525990401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce7a37e1b853a228b19c14f8450bb25f/lenaxiwibaroxobetekoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/87844870222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huucodatlanh.com/userfiles/file/73547723320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09dbb1275b---kepoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/nejesefiwexofesamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amthanhanhsangchinhhang.vn/upload/files/24028850556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b584084761---tozuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/jomalak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe448f89460dddd344a213c1b4864726/16484281577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ac183066bb11ac9a4a0bda3d10d8c73/firurabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paitoonbox.com/userfiles/files/64268530395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://williamshudson.org/clients/3/35/35bf74ce48b5c120232fd40fb4fe3e45/File/vujozipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b28c167d4ae108b9b054e55a345f7a4c/rinibupotikoruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botorka.ro/userfiles/file/14736214561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remproekt-m.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pibekaxepemujif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=reflux+disease+questionnaire+%28rdq%29+pdfPDF 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_off0000b3a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBBE 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 024937aa08267135406107a6f64a051271e5d1704c1e5bdf5600f88d8c4862e7
font_02_sfnt_off0000e57a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57A 14584 bytes
SHA-256: 95bd0564a245b1e20405dada48c4ef7cdd1cbdd447fa905e7509ca7436ad3566