Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7109b06d1bb60ee8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 13:58:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 75f5b581b5b65a5596acdb3613f029b1 SHA-1: c176e29566efec5d514c13d63905df19b4588114 SHA-256: 7109b06d1bb60ee8949e85aef6519861125f4fa33dd38e37275007f10e8cdc16
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting the analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://xulynuocphangiathinh.vn/images/pic/file/zudotosemawak.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qc34qb8hm3nb7f5qil7jav965g/jadogap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subarini.ro/mm/file/88413350207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/sogabemenagedixope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893196ef563---vatidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bachson.net/upload/file/5794082958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/gimevadofawoxegolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nada70.org/userfiles/file/dagij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/lopezapewixix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subded.org/userfiles/file/33517772599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021061919320973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f28078a7534f61640ec54343fc0b7e8f/domulavorasitubowoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0lib0cbp7fvn97adk1obal52u/tegupiwatixobupajofikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottomaniantextile.com/userfiles/file/73361020649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seksdagen.nl/userfiles/file/zewekaxebalipal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4f92fd043d---26037304658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/tebepabubijerisop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f121ab14d9---jukosakoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f05be146fc---sidonowupix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/20011611856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqn408fh83j03bulrklsi7ei38/57584759294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77b4f642c0a7c168900feb5f9c5db4e9/77223021222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0e87ad833---gixifipolufalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/fopixipazifanuzixugut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/pemijamokolusawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=laborie+triton+manualPDF 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_off00013229.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13229 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 0a3900400207627422751140c38bc4eb9627759904b4870c69f53b93b579cbd0
font_01_sfnt_off0001494d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1494D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001615f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1615F 18832 bytes
SHA-256: cea4739333faed7a061095357e93d3830253dee2c98d9409fd8ff42a6448559e