Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7a9a9006130df53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 20:16:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b00f672c7f093cef16a0a65aee2c869a SHA-1: 31b94b6aab119c8239f97fdae2f7cf259b1c9df3 SHA-256: c7a9a9006130df53173bb7c7b2ca11cae3d78feb80452745aef841de5e990f45
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0'. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://skupka23.ru/upload/m/gomumovewawuzejezukiwo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://franchisebusinessadvisors.franchisebrokerwebsites.com/broker-site/files/files/26124257101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luckysurface.itweald.com/uploads/files/613c2a0d1fcf5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ore-processing.ru/d/files/biginivekajozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantage.ee/media/contents/file/19426805095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms1oke.com/contents/files/boxigujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/41145641264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alyosserspneed.com/userfiles/files/fezolukasiwosem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yearbookplus.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/54854417610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613673c6992d8---92358721085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/jinuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tandartsindex.nl/images/uploads/lesawujezetupevanodilupim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eubeer.vn/uploads/files/34524584082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpsa.cz/userfiles/file/vezovabitaredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emiem.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tujetajew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/safivuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdaniec.com/upload/files/84728713414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613446339ba26---pafotesavajamalireleto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/motefamasobimuwizib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133613373953---muzibevonubeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93d8c8m9d87eiginsccv919q80/70916639733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinaval.ru/userfiles/file/43271628694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.studiorosaliabusco.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vinavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///medunefamunatijazajasalep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=star+sports+apk+modPDF 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_off0000ef76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF76 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 8bbc4ae4b4d8380f1c489ee92126b15bfa1d858632adb2a9e17522c36790790f
font_01_sfnt_off000106d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D1 17592 bytes
SHA-256: 060033839628a8c297a236fd73d8b4b5c3a76b01cffc7b8b94ffbe85b2ed93b1
font_02_sfnt_off0001347a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1347A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1