Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7256ae193386e79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 08:30:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ac589d6924310154b3e7361b357bc3e7 SHA-1: 3207c972d0dfdafa9f27fd74ebc0fa401d41c84c SHA-256: f7256ae193386e79ed7293722b470349d65142d0dc4c25613f86b8ebafa9becc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and link farms pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=battleship+of+warships+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://ietc-oman.com/userfiles/files/38920888115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsnowodworze.pl/userfiles/file/12359682016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proclima-membranes.ru/userfiles/file/fapebiripedomivenadikuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spiregene.com/image/files/20210910_044638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhanh.com/files/safisalesirogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsagco.com/Upload/file/wiwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cctbgt3c7usgitedthrq0o9nc7/tafedolukizasupunukulut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32d8f1e936cc858b0264c55fd04fdf21/75622803258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datawire.gr/files/files/javojasunise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/gufajomebixenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzmanwebci.com/calisma2/files/uploads/99467482274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/2021911128197946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://it-remarketing.pl/app/webroot/media/files/vaganemimejufori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonaparte.cappencms.com/templates/files/govapasosiputel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreptultau.hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/pawovozolitades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97c72997ba63b3990d07f0ec5dcdcd5b/wukamedojilakutedus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidsjeodo.com/images/files/48879036128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listapp.in/ci/userfiles/files/96516364765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-vaganovskoe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74863321939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/gakodonavukiminuvixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nffcd.org/userfiles/files/pipabazilajomirusu.pdfIn 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://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_off0000d735.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD735 17792 bytes
SHA-256: 49253e1189c7f44118703ea31b2520186eb143477fbc554a15d50e7f380021e6
font_01_sfnt_off0001054f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054F 10892 bytes
SHA-256: ba386f7d0d0e34e625bade54c76f3d4f8751ad473bcc33d555d34444985f811b
font_02_sfnt_off00011e9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1