Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7d5f2c4d4d3830c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:50:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 980cfc965e7ecc109a36874e53545ab1 SHA-1: d5190893694e069476beb9c478b920704585b6b0 SHA-256: c7d5f2c4d4d3830cb807f9709bd4fed83f6eabae868e29683c49ac9f69ecc509
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly supports its malicious nature. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hospitality+tourism+marketing+strategies+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://cbcom.fr/ressource/site-image/files/sixuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihoanghuy.com/uploads/files/93371182922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/95787981819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47e5e1599e800905cdce08d509e743d3/tipamagodupile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927917b1625---jerobevisuvomatibekux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072efeea03a1---gomolus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vulojedorofopitij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/87644296985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntpuvoice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/valif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acavacecio.it/userfiles/files/kigifasivovurarodatujave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarvvv.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9698310567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac16547688---93942103383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodonionfestival.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65558073023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/mebifubaxezuwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bhbtptlq007m2rg6j5jfijv0f6/22532214908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072128a3af49---73909700738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610095402f06c---48133310676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90944950029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchung7.com/upload/file/divumafamowelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdd6be5b7e8b20045729b0b351566442/26336986979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machinex-machines.com/UserFiles/File/firerug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lampbnch1ij2b197tq5vusquu2/rorozimopiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfj731hvi57fr547odl1hhc7ku/norenoribovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b0d20a808---93930196117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e0513818aa---51284339180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d4c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4C8 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 7c5184b5432d57000929f9371c88bf64a2ebdc752818dc461fdf91471a055487
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE95 16424 bytes
SHA-256: e07110dc743f6283cee1320a5227d720226be349e2517360c7a7d460ee4a75c5
font_02_sfnt_off00011897.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11897 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1