Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7ba08ced0fcc5d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 02:47:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f1c13cfc07dbeb3c9770a4875584d459 SHA-1: ca8ec0f80b899210281b1a2493d16357cb3840bb SHA-256: f7ba08ced0fcc5d30d15cd70207c9d9f8e682942cdac674d2e98763cfcee1923
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be disposable. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination or to host malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://asmitahrgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42095432849.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/sekidinozopurexulawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjcounsel.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sapuzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gongotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_2B4C9746380B17E5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatfailogistics.com/fckeditor/files/file/vugepujirarajodoluwiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalavto.ru/userfiles/file/fasonemezilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belly.bpv.su/content/files/files/18529348355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161349c62da1ee---zuzisunikoxefojolabazod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e85fe0f5b3f9e2dbcd99bd05ee06790/jisilojila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137ca3f6e5eb---46047327188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mertcelikkapi.com/userfiles/file/5174446835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613222122917b---14034548330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/64312876159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.it/file/wamusubovigonafomufuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elektrostroy.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85114012867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f541ccac9d---95642254061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clap-bas.com/userfiles/file/20026099103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f37b18341a---lowegiwemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/38635811572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-pointpro.com/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5470949475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydchem.cn/filespath/files/20210913115759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://free-note.kr/files/fckeditor/file/100686184613716b589d97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/sewovaxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahuacoop.com/cms_gpadmin2015/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/bipixagutugimedeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/66311787751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=feeling+that+starts+with+yPDF 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_off0000b65f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB65F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE71 15280 bytes
SHA-256: 0a7b86b6158dc9926bfb537a4c5ced49db538074bc61a01c6b66c87f42355f62
font_02_sfnt_off0000f495.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF495 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 1956eacc9363dd1ae8238af3ff5d25233a1ee03f2b1e3e0bf3d1cde6b068680e