Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7238f8331ef7fa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:14:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bc78f3ab4f5fdc67d9fbb87042cd058f SHA-1: 749c3b8b5958ac478ba8fa6902fb157beeaa6ee0 SHA-256: d7238f8331ef7fa95cc6ccfec28c6076758183ef2a809c7567b4b3bc6c830a7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves tricking users into clicking links within the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://ckeditor.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xawewere.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719147d1014---torenapekubatukaforo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/37376519808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxqcgs.net/filespath/files/20210817110852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cartolmania.it/file/mupivadawamajededoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099fe420b765---90269740993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b302a2555b2---ginaduseniragilumagib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/zupamupatudononuxaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/wumalabokibijugaxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nprofit.hk/userfiles/38411351487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/netafilapozabizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://methese.com/upload/files/mubimutepivanepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fe6ac549bdf632a40d79157bb69a9a2/5889154590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgxzz.com/uploadfile/file/lawexis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9df02bfc5666ca5d56bb4ce481ace3a/1448012081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084cfbe53dea---72159014933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/levazekosumugalaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruiguoex.com/upfile/files/2021/07/13/dibagenek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b4c374c77---xovif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9d116bcdb84236bd54ef80dc9a26b66/273014262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/pibibufajokunowina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608daff04f180---47608177656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pessin-location.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vemekogejadasuzifipugajul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=best+friend+captions+for+picturesPDF 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_off0000e7ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffe0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE0 17260 bytes
SHA-256: a54d49e1e6c6de94513829d5497ab32378dcae8745ef4b4870f5fb33041e00a1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C30 10720 bytes
SHA-256: e33883fe4cab567ec5acfa6665240289d015cf683d105aedc2cd20d074996827