Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7729cbfde51fbb71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-24 06:54:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7c36cfe1d89a8b5b61f3ae55d96887f2 SHA-1: f26be36b7f7c9700a7d750375c1e0563b7a2e0c8 SHA-256: 7729cbfde51fbb715caf291b8cdf3465466331f9efd2bf5787e6830f7336f3f4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicates malicious intent, likely to deliver a phishing or trojanized payload. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://motoquadro.de/userfiles/file/81244364116.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7de9499a808fb3b9163ff375dda1dbde/gulimigub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0699da341c---59672174221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/71417609071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705685e9134---gezesifolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080225d98e77---98007138616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konferencii.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70490810960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechitay.com/uploads/userfiles/file/82030379564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa0367dd705---sitivab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33281780169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/69977211595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e469cee8f2---vabive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfinancialconsulting.com/userfiles/file/10768784642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6ce0be65e---42852162085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carlojans.com/cms/file/fakezum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092d2ea50c03---vitumetubefab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084cb3352756---konot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio6deenero.com/uploaded/files/95266413767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/nosewefolanupugorilodewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmaciasacoor.com/site/upload/file/58718887720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeleven.net/UserFiles/File/38558435014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/68175910411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8b8545396---duraxoravidusigibusiranu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=azerbaijan+english+dictionary+pdfPDF 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_off0000f18e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF18E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000109a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A5 11324 bytes
SHA-256: c1d3a1f2ec7c06763b841803af957de6dfcf6c71d246b40e620175b09efc8b82
font_02_sfnt_off000123d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123D8 18276 bytes
SHA-256: 2396f64015124e92e3a585fe188d98c4953cf7661f153d0562ec5df4fa8c3b30