Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7523e5ad54b4b06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 01:21:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7dfaf42a256837116dddaa36d04c8a61 SHA-1: 99d11390fe7239f40aa1075453d2f809acdd32fa SHA-256: f7523e5ad54b4b06ad82a2a516998e42bfa49a7e0a340b0c48536a865413213b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URLs are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/narogesenuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fkhsai2f9eh7sj27f16cn26me6/18643540864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c86a12de3d---jigevumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/43823946677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkl.cn/filespath/files/20210815212048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/lipuxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhvi.com/upload/files/56704100357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/bujerike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abrasco.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34005683781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/56064933247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/37728242619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodottoitalia.eu/userfiles/files/lejivakugupukulil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/peruro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/18896187115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e5fd28692666a3640c1efd316532a99/zigugiduli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promobryansk.ru/userfiles/files/51711681674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxag.com/upload/browse/file/fefizafulewawovopub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvrkkph4h15h2seeep3ip098ck/19393148956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufmsmg5klhjqspnmr0de7hbbbr/xubuwezoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n6hhuvgov8ui6jrufdjcb8hlm1/mogajizazazudugakat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdb4fb75e4---fisomitufabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vet-arrighicolangelicristilli.eu/userfiles/files/vilifajajat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5340fe28f0---rijezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=yoga+for+weight+loss+for+beginners+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c025.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC025 15864 bytes
SHA-256: beb69e5c08d8ec369d1cab7d960ae7c130b81c74451fc998eb467d724cc0b636
font_01_sfnt_off0000e88b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE88B 16576 bytes
SHA-256: 5c364c81a7fb26b682e528dfb9bb2ec7b7b3075c787315c09ee9bd972eb38d11
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000117de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117DE 10984 bytes
SHA-256: e2a72990abdd0ffad87bd68f97157477a19644fd2eb8f5acb8147d13ed625523