Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7af9a2d22ac8847…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-23 16:21:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 00619ab84cf53d70fdd8151e248bc414 SHA-1: d9c6f932005040e2234669eda2c35c1c281343e4 SHA-256: d7af9a2d22ac884791b027ebe99bd36dc1acef0d65853e73345fd117de013d57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress installations and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

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://embassyinvietnam.com/webroot/img/files/zomutegubo.pdf
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a58dnvdb4qildgg3tlh6290ra0/pufuporeravuluweliw.pdf
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/21282055801.pdf
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecf25d462f3d0aeadca990d0d41b57c2/28093152430.pdf
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079016c42bd5---24914416186.pdf
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a7274fd6f---72019363514.pdf
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdraqv3sovhjlq4vft2en1o595/85207554470.pdf
    • https://www.bussmann-tiefbau.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41555199844.pdf
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66536c5247395a968064ffd6d4d4de25/85777934483.pdf
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075de2675fb8---59786864466.pdf
    • http://canhtoanland.com/upload/files/66714674160.pdf
    • https://daismene.it/file/riwiwewavozosujagem.pdf
    • https://www.indoorclub-informa.com/boletines/img/file/9513599330.pdf
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/7668443067.pdf
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/1032988106.pdf
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/564918744f4e2b260272ec2244ea4f75/96773804346.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714980f23cc---78330236151.pdf
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3fff99578---wamubaxeredewedunazusoni.pdf
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f78aeabaf3c3c9fc6311b7ce3ab5baf8/9290603822.pdf
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073820a64410---40412469107.pdf
    • https://seedomoretravel.com/files/files/nevaker.pdf
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b775ebae1d0---xokeme.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=centroide+de+un+trapecio+rectangular
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903da44594d---fekabafudukof.pdf
    • 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_off0000e2ed.bin
58decb19ef8484d94a55e7ef7373a7a0df98b31d7dfad5ee81777c8c8df088c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2ED 19396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011517.bin
74812d49463dc2b19ec024fc5a29a648223c72ac5fc4eee020194dc7b7190c70
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11517 10652 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d61.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D61 16792 bytes