Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7082b4877967eefc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:01:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: edb4e26c7392ce4262ff5fc2b3f0cfe2 SHA-1: f0893b8d97010386896f0debdcf7b79c0c8d958b SHA-256: 7082b4877967eefc59772601e957e1516c0c6948ecce4c4a5a3d0ee4dc406057
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it's designed to lure users to external, potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://bacvietexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/2520323115.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kalkulacka-hypo.cz/userfiles/files/60916350233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38u4bnmtq33t0oquqsc9hi2e26/69476528307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomontironi.eu/userfiles/files/23007312759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/vewozutawejetekezebibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebellingerfamily.com/clients/0/05/05034faaa501c69409a7459485cba135/File/63837691794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c97e64e15f---28197244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d071b443c2---jegiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22013896995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111226671522---85598089470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/58417984497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89eec786f14687bde61d516789c9b5e3/fizusedovolanomuxajafapes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/25264375782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15523f6c263e37eb4998349b4af89946/pagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anaksemut.com/contents//files/64396350712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ud2-140.com/files/47282349036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085be28f1ce7---faberegijiwupokon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fvd0a670br2bsn0h9qbhmfab9k/12751750952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161202d502183c---tumalelusekukusozuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bfdd9bf05f---zawesebagin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kavtas.com/images_upload/files/roposasidag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ac21427c8---73123423103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=ice+breaker+introductionPDF 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_off0000ebca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCA 17688 bytes
SHA-256: 4672ada987600005750460439946662e0abd07f7b934de0caf992c586e24950d
font_01_sfnt_off000119ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000131c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131C4 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 392221aa16f2cd0488203c7f02d200dcfa2204e03add8e16cb83eb81a8ec89e3