Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7d2e551476c11f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-06-19 00:27:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8f1fd47b7c6f5547dd56e57d69642d18 SHA-1: 0bdb63c8ee514eab1a439177f4d4d1ab495264b3 SHA-256: d7d2e551476c11f7d0b49eaad4967fbb60441b926a772d2c8c8fd24c7aee51f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, acting as a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates these links are likely used for SEO poisoning to lure users to potentially unwanted software, such as 'gloud game mod apk unlimited time'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://miguktour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_A641F5749CA14422.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a001373d6---90558662416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080db0011873---mizobunut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075224458b7e---89855902347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739d4b3d9a3---40045202160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/devubekuzukox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oeidr7jalr71oq7g4ig6drr1s2/jebukafakibifemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdcj0es2d2sbfg7glt4q13kvnh/47093284821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d0657c44e---61289591759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ums0qc0367rghmncceg7b1mqj/17505764940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19akhiq7fh97e235v8l6mcbglh/tatinevimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fa6110851---sebamulurevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/035llaml3985jce9769t947ee6/dovexobutiwiduliwali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=gloud+game+mod+apk+unlimited+timePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8FC 3052 bytes
SHA-256: 84ae25ab5fd06c1419d34306a2e6abe33aaaf67cc4718a1cdec553bcaf498e2d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D3 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 0fb5d5bfb8e625d687cbf075b5a276340acfdd59dc5430be95c273ba04148450
font_02_sfnt_off0001051b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1051B 2072 bytes
SHA-256: 7b01539e001fc28f5ee7fc6e48ca2bb9802dfb1d69cd127dd55bcc917f36ed61
font_03_sfnt_off00010e88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E88 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 5cbd3b3a2c99ea6eb5e6bb9102e3c1592bdb130e838fd5b76335e9fc191e16b5
font_04_sfnt_off000131de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131DE 16164 bytes
SHA-256: 3f70697d8cfd0b9becff5adcad726f9ffedcc5d773cc6f7abbcc82b2f8034994