Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7d758c7dd326f3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:29:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a675d70a77431e7a4051c26f3c6d6ad0 SHA-1: 892ece8ddab2686f063f9a7b2312662f1cfc2401 SHA-256: e7d758c7dd326f3d73ac5dc5d75c1bf16d838615a1e95ea9167bbe2a27554dd1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document containing embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links. Many of these links point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f01c1b0c55fd3842989cf097e1736c17/42895487079.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group.com/ci/userfiles/files/wogobabelarefesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b1f438e44aa7dd2b7c0acd58bbaf48f/50097953695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-immobilien.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35922816753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thegrcinstitute.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68268328112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be7b605bdd5---lagelejapapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/fokutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indyskischool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17234250033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbar.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/core/connector/upload/files/razorabizifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehotelgateway.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/mogosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/52577232425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c32f91772b---wajukoxokiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c004a96192e---77699545358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yukkumpulgroup2.com/contents/files/97662077755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b64eba1c9---13741896643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girisimhaber.com/uploads/file/77643526454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-okinawa.com/img/tmp/file/41071281876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koffiewarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tofitekejopuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/28399132982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/516c2df402e465e9def086ab7d8edc69/resolufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/733480681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d614e8e7e3---7698583505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a49728072---72635364513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowa-architekci.pl/userfiles/files/xolilitigude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+iron+chest+in+minecraftPDF 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_off0000d4e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4E5 17928 bytes
SHA-256: 698c98afe063929ca64fdb1058a28d12b662fd073bbd8b7da1b4622450946a00
font_01_sfnt_off00010364.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10364 10724 bytes
SHA-256: d2e35fb679c15d9a5b8c8cd9b78aa6d2a694a024b6f0412137cc8387f6958742
font_02_sfnt_off00011bd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1