Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f7cb58626043273…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:36:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1e3920ff39f3f2c7daeb84cb43ec5d54 SHA-1: 31bce47d3e97ac7dde22d01befab344e41d6a489 SHA-256: 2f7cb586260432732fe9eaa818abffd13b4058493b5adcf5782d40150f6d6c66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bae69e55a4805d4d10adaf5c0a5daee/banizozow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.ru/files/files/romivirasepeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9vcj87rrk9cl9b2l9fv99vuk5/nipivowalexegaguleri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5c47102cc889cc1e3b35c9f396a790e/bikuvijaxijal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.singaporemedicalclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tonojurixanefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjavc.com/filespath/files/20210823094721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psycare-spb.com/userfiles/file/18137495412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bcslaw.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/85038294208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuderprogettazione.it/userfiles/files/jumapanopagatekego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/38034279784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cr2t2ctgluekmn8ghtu57747m8/denitesofixorepevixor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa655412fa7e6f949dec361832cae31a/43677407686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u2snno8bmbrtvej82r8equp8h3/mejutetejapulalagituzuvaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1961.com/clients/875375/File/86500685323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/20966545973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06f88d341542fd824b29acada9d179b6/34919883154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/74857325211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eb6b62ad91f660907877445fe5b8513/59091988132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b89983edb1922bd8c0caa97dfe103d59/gidetiwagewalakomofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608774a74b8d1---gametefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/73286589511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekalocal.com/Maeka/UserFiles/File/dajovasaral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogieclassof67.com/clients/71235/File/24021090524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanders-scottfamily.com/clients/26926/File/gibinuwiwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=distilled+water+ph+scalePDF 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_off0000eccb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECCB 10472 bytes
SHA-256: f882b00b76236534f2f6fc0a5206783c933a98a29f9915906abf914a10f128d5
font_01_sfnt_off000104cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104CC 17864 bytes
SHA-256: b0f02495d1eb706ff6adecdaa76506446c50dd20d8621d90049d15780c508a35
font_02_sfnt_off00013363.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13363 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1