Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7809d3f91f7a3fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 22:54:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3d159173f77970e65c534c0f6c5046b6 SHA-1: ab3fababce173750aa894f3fe8952440022f0e53 SHA-256: f7809d3f91f7a3fd44f43a6b991792c55e0114268b91cbcdb5d50f3143a540f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, pointing to potentially compromised websites, including one on a WordPress upload storage. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://profitoolinfo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vapin.pdf
    • https://radio-aurea.eu/files/file/matokotisufa.pdf
    • https://bhavanarayanaswamy.org/userfiles/file/35153474567.pdf
    • http://kientrucphatloc.com/upload/files/bapubikara.pdf
    • http://kingbikeonline.com/images/upload/File/12186637214.pdf
    • https://tasteadmin.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/custom/wysi_uploads/files/meximulilil.pdf
    • http://abwlanham.com/uploads/files/kenixuzokes.pdf
    • https://www.champagne-auge-dascier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lukodafuv.pdf
    • https://durimawar.com/contents/files/lividobejik.pdf
    • http://wyadonline.com/userfiles/file/rapokuz.pdf
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f8fe60b06---35580056099.pdf
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613259739040d---79949404266.pdf
    • http://secondhandgraphics.com/usrfiles/file/diladepi.pdf
    • https://feldmann.pl/userfiles/file/diraloz.pdf
    • http://classicalgardenfountains.com/uplds/file/selitazoxajiwo.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b3941e5910914c00c54f9abbc4a06a7/piwibiwuje.pdf
    • http://kingsfci.com/userfiles/file/84422226688.pdf
    • http://yanartekstil.com/firma/files/92731930155.pdf
    • http://rungruangsteel.com/public/upload/userfiles/files/semilesudoluvegafirari.pdf
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82604abb42312f29a7c20157d3aadfea/53146876486.pdf
    • https://chilegastronomia.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/raxetaziliselunudigi.pdf
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/jajivawufefojujedag.pdf
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/27574075081.pdf
    • https://sukaunited4d.vip/contents/files/2694575085.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=winning+eleven+soccer+game
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d423.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD423 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec3a.bin
5e827b856bab9a9b18b10ca6ab8c6881c7afbc91c07387f97efe15bfcb9875f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC3A 10532 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010431.bin
a7b05c80f8968f14765e8ce1942dbb89af15942547ec270e379688e68f72b1d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10431 17688 bytes