Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca7733ca93eb31af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 02:51:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 12f764f6e97fba8eabf187577e93490c SHA-1: 6e2e7436c202256ea1237270dd4f3a7da932a533 SHA-256: ca7733ca93eb31afa9a02eecc9a407e155eb068f28084e90c5c7ca5d4af439b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware-hosting sites. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis confirm the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 https://daulte.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ripemowegawizufojudiwu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/popokopimulukovikogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b40927d0a---rabegisumorekufiloma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/39764061085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b128bd30f3---41410338229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/64653922209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/serupajugatutepowap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8osl6ecmnvqipk5edkic30oh1/72694691006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43l7vm8h92pfhb1eqqbi6uqajb/vizaxogekijibitir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e64ea7e317---zuwumuwopopes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70923974928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722f77358c1---19579912558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e75d54da5787f2c73f66f492644ebf7/49586840164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0c8264d33baa4df56998ae80c2cc98e/70259665285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/didijuturakosoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/4789052742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/22693926405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f113f05f4---30059516522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7519875546a8ab64409d71b2dd353b31/20016051708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6924beaf80398929e893bffff6b1c64c/fofibise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2ojqutq1p6kimtqj60bgmcok5/43873832529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95e27832993d3af1076ed8ca98e868c7/13836807599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/bogibavusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boyanbolyarski.com/userfiles/file/82517911317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-13/20210513005711926686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=operating+system+questions+and+answers+pdf+for+freshers+interviewPDF 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_off000109f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109F5 11436 bytes
SHA-256: a96d92fb9701eda837cab1df934517ff324f1bbae93a914439e9b62274e673ea
font_01_sfnt_off0001245e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1245E 17768 bytes
SHA-256: 08dd41fd29164d87552edb9fbe468cab72880ba883cb574c12b092805bdac2b6
font_02_sfnt_off00015303.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15303 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1