Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e729864a8fee4371…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-20 02:46:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 980a60ad9b0f857d4edf0eba01c02006 SHA-1: 7c5c0a8a833543d4bb46aa42969adbdf6779c1af SHA-256: e729864a8fee43717201da1b68cca5c86c28571dbec5f9fa6a72421e1ea841ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest this document's purpose is to lead users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://www.77ice.com/upload/files/wawujakuve.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/vugogumurixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c4e23296d8e42aff3fe023131478a10/34801658960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e39aa17830a68bec13ca6ed9858fb972/nojuxovezulenojisoguvajuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammensfilip.be/uploads/files/lufubenowunetoturexexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08684ac9d009f6130540ea0afcef2ed9/69061889369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/dorozubepoxifoxiwarujobef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3794cd17c0ec64869c0ba64a22b209b9/lajoxupelumusurovutug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebf0803fc58b870ec454ab27a1ac6779/vuropufikalogozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talani.nl/userfiles/image/file/93055805358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///nazekanonap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ceac6ba496---74288892770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a108036cffc---13794619834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30dd17c90147cfece9126e1a74d02d5e/tinotojofatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7243b534f038a936451446f3ca1db20/jazemaboromunofuzotavule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e775c41152a162140fa7fbe334d738a/57173281710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmyc.net/clients/875386/File/wixatamatazadida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a018a6f77---61837830805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kcea1se7al48cmniboaimnqo05/30021301587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/67111201112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609226663d3cc---sumorawoliwefoditepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e68f110f98362a3de85c94174e737ce/genatomugavabilonofelaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05a6b5b634---kisadufunomijatanurak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+architectural+technology+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_off0000fc4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011464.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11464 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 61ff0cdbe92bd719ef961364f43a3ffcfd3d2235fa394c9dd2a358579ae910ae
font_02_sfnt_off00012d51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D51 17072 bytes
SHA-256: 71f441bde8a2e5521e5d868ca247b6714fb6cfa62a0a59be96ff7f6fd8582dd5