Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b7369c7d62515ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-06-22 22:59:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 386b7a284558dbf145ac3fdc06225901 SHA-1: 47dd1abc1796ad7b80fbcb057e3f1de484989684 SHA-256: 2b7369c7d62515ae3a4a4aaf12f6b733d75f32d75ad6b60f48b229147fe48bd0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and utilizing form builder plugins for file hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata from wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it was programmatically generated as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac8968ff6f---xokumipabirujogamubu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/87582153108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16c352827718d3eb957ff8264d0db30c/98308409398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mb6iqn2ltcu6s44pn73dehm855/sujojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdfb285d5204173fe5744f4a2b375799/11530302593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superplasticizer.cn/d/files/zadatevonewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b9689def10daf58afb5b2d7c88f883e/44675829994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a71a6da4e1---zodidosezegisuvoselejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/jororamojezajidasizud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943a51f2aa3---vokuxefale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjklsr4uu0ju6gsga0npidqpcu/14120956525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/tovife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file/%5C/2021051121517_328096240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=random+variable+continuousPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000dd4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD4F 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 0724d7a78b8cffe69d5ccc91c08b3800ce1ffdd4c078a70fc0c6412950d6dc6c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF3D 12376 bytes
SHA-256: 3e8ab19e95c734c7d6c9e8bcfc6dbdb0b1ebedbbec8bac5175f6152974eeae35
font_02_sfnt_off000119fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119FC 16144 bytes
SHA-256: f7f944af48a1f29a4fc81369acbb7667dc0c0bb312d09d0e658341ed730dbf86