Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7731f4863da9290e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-27 06:48:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3b5146ed82608df5da7085ef08d6f0fa SHA-1: 7636a1e5e1786da5dfcd9e6983e3f9f7312d3b0e SHA-256: 7731f4863da9290ef2953655aaa13e51a00a6f8cee179cec24d75b1683012d54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of link farms in PDFs often involves JavaScript to facilitate redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9886

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://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3f98fc429e---73183615358.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e036b6fe83217ac4fbb96325f709e418/nezijojopem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608609ae5e03d---xutupagefimalozokabobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8sq6s4grtnivic6s6rest8lt85/lubazadogepesopure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehsclassof64.com/clients/b/bf/bfa5c4411462ceee4a19e543862d902c/File/zuvesibunosukuxunakibosof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paeonia.ch/userfiles/files/kusilevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/mokezofawijirikalikotiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26472ef5b938960330c5ff71d73a3d51/80307741224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4626071dcb---70358256435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/lafodudigamukew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanitaerprofi.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/wikoduxafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bfe6603bd4---92910826821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/radulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkcs2etd47f02iksraes95uv3a/93154719885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b668e5a0cf0---46187722838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbe8a34e4e2---sijejumanexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c26f1dc73d---vadovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deea70133fdc699e8021b34d61566a18/89618531755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4a7147b69fbdd547fec8fcab13f1d11/16914340035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0103b87422---5349312504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0bfb370263---37008269442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaretti.it/userfiles/files/jepoxezedonifedojakewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/27279833170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmbs628mbmgllt08e5urt7ei50/gajelavewoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/1766639871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/2512450435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=libro+kybalion+pdf+espa%C3%B1olPDF 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_off0000f21e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF21E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A30 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 9f4aa143ecb4b57db22822303436d58d71ac0d4588b77e23c17360b40f631954
font_02_sfnt_off00013719.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13719 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 46c05f44fa33026efb70ba83dc99e2141eb708951ede2edb82e0209ea8a198df