Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7c95c7730027043…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-06-09 00:44:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 51531c5a2d28a3e2cff254bfbf2952a3 SHA-1: fd587ae97b6a30d310c25ef290afe940dc0caf06 SHA-256: d7c95c7730027043398dbec14a8fc9fda68cf426de9da635b446ecdeb075c5c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, such as 'garglob.ru' and 'mwasafat.com'. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a date, suggesting it was generated programmatically to host these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+innocents+book+club+questions PDF link annotation
    • https://mwasafat.com/uploads/files/jilefufejajimetetokiweto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemanssrl.it/file/detogifolibaxoturatejaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/sotomogomisogug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f1f044b3feae474df50103e2a5017dd/72814685156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klasykarozrywki.pl/public/images/fck/file/fekazigexixumikipitifaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b406086e1ea80cebe814d103f8d5834/fazozilasitogamusawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c81f45d0d8---zokedalilojazizuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a4c8c87f1---51167066369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/875ab911f428a41335772e1dc04220cc/zobesugizerad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6db56df5c---kivimeseleturigiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984f96f3ad3---6718416274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fcd1153a173e22056f1d8e29d1e1248/5884208022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/mikuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbb984ba153ecbe65ec0f909ced7d2ab/zodozebolizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D2 4860 bytes
SHA-256: 8d20c2af04ace97e372b6ec20968acfce849e3ba32e77ee903210b50fe400c66
font_01_sfnt_off0000f262.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF262 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 312730a33be03779bd7c65b181c1621d6f518c5e1138e53ada6ca62a47bfef07