Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7c760f61054c67b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-09 07:48:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a68a0d9a45cfaa41086cf837a64ca66d SHA-1: 2998f707a008e045462977071096627d3b7729c9 SHA-256: f7c760f61054c67b56c993bb9137337b51c45e30de0deff49b645abc8a755050
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which host other PDFs. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7g07va29fm2edq4i7s9sv8gins/41894676134.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chinhlytailieuluutru.com/media/ftp/file/14541521696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1678b53851---xugobelovamabepid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/kusurozesum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e811d428b9---tufawirafuwewowutiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa045bcca3---nitoniro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae8a6917597---9736278404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/49044266541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b779d1f60---95410316928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cunningham-reunion.com/clients/7/73/7399477c88ef979e1ad3ac38e42cffcc/File/96353416824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoldjogsi.hu/uploads/files/61276679039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d663ce292ec433390a57f4a3d136bdfa/pofemefip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0306c4aaaf---bewekogofubazige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/171d41f477eed03013201bff8c9f0213/bojosebatidipunibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socukorglutamatmentesfuszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/simotenupirigagekoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bd59ee63da---mujalezizikigozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/34473257979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d34882a3e5---44854553188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cbs-emballages.com/upload/file/64418182532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a710e9b06f3---funuwawele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080032f1096b---rejutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=windows+8+iso+image+file+downloadPDF 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_off0000f1cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1CB 17552 bytes
SHA-256: a1deba08eb6bdd11ccff60a8b1055e4fd24843f463fdd5d5f5dc57acaa3f59a8
font_01_sfnt_off00011fcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FCF 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 8d03a2d6751cc6dd417ab35d2efec5013cca5d6981970225a2567b29e423909c
font_02_sfnt_off00013876.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13876 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1