Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7a2ab5960aaad5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:52:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 916d0a9c75bd8b5974f99538c375a069 SHA-1: 1210b9d3644f7a7a668b696200de71cbc77551ac SHA-256: d7a2ab5960aaad5a7ad9ac55fbf502ba90aa5e8c729fcba8bb901c9a704ffbf3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document's structure and embedded links indicate an attempt to disguise malicious activity as a file conversion service.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+to+pdf+to+jpg+online PDF link annotation
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609107594bf3b---rowomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeroseistudio.eu/userfiles/files/62876201347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/9958769109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/selifirafosufawerowevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae816c2c355e462b5f4316724db2de64/ruvomikolun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62633451c8a4218941a4cc454ae6854b/wivavobozegimufokitizazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3f1d57044---bikupudopemano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607586638dfe0---dijefogatokalup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11493a53e1---vijakukizadarud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e85c7ba7eebcc6903d7a0be1827310be/27339136917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d984amv72vb528gkbthbjnkb7/logivuwavakatoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-baby-clothes.com/d/files/58204423836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ef525e83f35470d0550728ea3f97d64/xuzapetumuwojorelopez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/60669285419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/252159489679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whs1963.com/clients/7/75/758a827d59fb1c2827eec60421ffdc22/File/jofetutomifani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f86b558fac3740701fc2d28a3e5af1ad/tototomubuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e6b6f6aba44c2e2640d425c3d22746d/41378312199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kraftyz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94856163436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.com/files/files/zulefadena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ugbh2hfm6fu01uu3qefni8as31/nudubetazulaxomuvidifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad65fa2b9cd---jezazijituj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rvf7e6ttdvsd1tqm3c9j3gd958/memobaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuhlshop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65677624468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021061001472820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexus-study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/kujazokit.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_off0000d38e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD38E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eba5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA5 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 91fc8f0518db4b6af0f28d0111cff38eceb960996e87be5781b27bf557ff95aa
font_02_sfnt_off0001039f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1039F 16488 bytes
SHA-256: 10c339824d54aeff9b3d1d17375a55ab3444148c10448d403105c2728d27009c