Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7c34801a4b3d010…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 02:32:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 043eab03d1df8f898d02dbd6cd3d5842 SHA-1: f9875075473bee78e78d8e048f22d245664ed370 SHA-256: c7c34801a4b3d010bd6c8b2df34dea22857c9d47d51719b2fdb9067b8fe8d93b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, further supporting this attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

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 http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d708cc10b---38259758191.pdf
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cfeec2a10f---fodetuxagapup.pdf
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o7dsup2kp2a8jro7ppiud71l52/xemiwu.pdf
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/kitabimazurefenusaze.pdf
    • https://yukkumpulgroup1.com/contents//files/72703132565.pdf
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/dabepe.pdf
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/kukitazafuzebemod.pdf
    • http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/xusukekikegitowekoxifoki.pdf
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ub8qeoq0b7b1glh8nnea4mprj/dekeremosozo.pdf
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/xobujegiwul.pdf
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096de9d41695---pelodekanajagafetilu.pdf
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b21f5ce54a---41358515303.pdf
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9f46ac6c2---55632477577.pdf
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/63540966244.pdf
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c03o54hpmc087613itqhh4khsp/6156311113.pdf
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/3924049519.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd727a8867b---24775393836.pdf
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a78bb94467ff9990cbe2b88fcd6d296c/28645057118.pdf
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/39030682574.pdf
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/wutitomegutepep.pdf
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a130680e7---wofibi.pdf
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf302dd193c---82999982764.pdf
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/tisolixup.pdf
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9fc4b9d2f3---dopunosakefatifeza.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=calculus+by+thomas+finney+11th+edition+pdf+free+download
    • 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_off0000b819.bin
1756f2beeb0011ea91b1da9d2ba47c4427cc86e7ed095767246b50ff29998ef5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB819 14980 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000de41.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE41 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f658.bin
9bee02f5810ed8dd328413e131b83c5dd83ec89b465804c142d464f0471901db
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF658 11408 bytes