Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7b940a3c6029de3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 05:50:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a73a96625e53409c34f6697124510b76 SHA-1: 068de10161b4c8c3babba41883f7d1a420efaa3e SHA-256: d7b940a3c6029de3ff1266f4aacf6274bed210f176553c0e424c014e941a1dd4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload storage. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=icloud+unlock+tool+2020+download PDF link annotation
    • http://wangguanhardware.com/userfiles/file/gitozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/92147353009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drprdesaihospital.com/uploads/28205668730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline.info/contents/files/83044126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjanzee.nl/file/34443174860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolavalerio.it/userfiles/files/93827914414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xugarigobofepidunidaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/97575015600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/rakupovugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.milestonesmn.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32641285768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.com/contents/files/51746418401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/478ebc14e538a6d01d6acc08162996fe/67786603883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purefeeling8.com/data/file/74977548674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06423107fa681f9e04f5da9d78ddcfca/13667630831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136497eeec64---najaleguwibowotinepuwizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/1347995871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rinducm1.com/contents/files/44569426132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmarcofaedi.com/userfiles/files/xivovavolokemakabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/bifugodusigolezepovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/143880316761406d243baa1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emons-verlag.com/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/21805758440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/54190686632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/66960219137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temtechnologies.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bewomagezutupusu.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_off0000d481.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD481 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 2f00c3172e683a511b6d5406cea29e5972678dea2b1345e2bc2e3433f152db9d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC1A 16972 bytes
SHA-256: 19aa77df3f77b214f450e95ce7cb69428cdda9b43192ecb77b4d7b701b1ce346
font_02_sfnt_off00011822.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11822 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1