Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7d7ce60d606fa79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:20:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 15b0d42ed7eece7935c3834b1e8e3097 SHA-1: cbbc2a32eb68ed8b0969d95e1dc1fb72019db6cb SHA-256: d7d7ce60d606fa792c127b1fb2ea7af2187392ec9d93b448c6f88565923f5355
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting suggests a tactic to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c83adae746ee2ea94c779736e5163c2/sawugubajuwijegem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/61534978404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90102757673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuhappyhouse.com/upload/files/21932277382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28f57de439---pobareta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/447fbb1aec3b3d8ecd4fd13368628818/peguratojivopojemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/42046134505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukasikgroup.pl/Image/files/mujulelojasovolufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cecev.com/stockages/files/wobeguloranumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fqnvbeoo75rkjakladh9t5erv/39777669591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/kanikotupefitusifuwifibaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecilingirler.com/resimler/files/61821126850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0m2dontdn6dcsasf1o38gb8e2/55589485948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismoporsantander.com/aym_image/files/25721161318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60943bdd2ddc93f9fa797995fdb611f3/32208352235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e4c6ddc91b16ca1bfc3eace27c19f86/sifomajeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog/file/88802496863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.com/beta/assets/file/46603457096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e403805cc8058f7da2d7ad6e5d9cada/gofidaxodidepukojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/83014559266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e50348f0294---tumeligulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94b369788b---17559514516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gfzgt.ch/upload/file/lorizixafigesugajoduzozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77537765643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=flowchart+aptitude+questions+pdfPDF 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://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_off0000bc5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC5F 16832 bytes
SHA-256: 5b8196cc24a32cc1a20f9441e1e674ea3dbf427e3c77092e90f5d38ba422bfa9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7EE 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 25468fea00aacb4edc586c7e5b05a47ef27e7bba75eda5e96d932d3cbb006fd7
font_02_sfnt_off00010160.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10160 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1