Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7851502bdcece073…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 14:53:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 87fbdbadffc14f5b8b422a53eb601c20 SHA-1: e3f96d60794b8c080e3808267e44085fc76e1169 SHA-256: 7851502bdcece0732d232d09d46d5244aa629098b43054e671b18f6b26843e7a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites used for hosting malicious PDFs. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+central+intelligence+123 PDF link annotation
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614304d09308c---89611135762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161374c2d8eb2e---78603583121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estatecambodia.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/36394277591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/jabaxasizelaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image/files/30146987141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locktactyuma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuvukinoxujowuligamuzibub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/93452616494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heathrowairporttaxi.website/userfiles/file/39176018946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://998.geektic.com/geektic/files/kukudipupituzobusateg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-energy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45540517320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51a55bdf726ceb728bbd94bdf1eea1a7/92187443359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b006da5864---ribewiruwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettruss.com/upload/file/rijula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/mojixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inkjetartandimage.com/Uploads/file/38459693028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labellebeaute.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39666681356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6kle9gc867tum9ak9q4ufl77cl/tafozazaderuvuxuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alles-vom-schreiner.de/userfiles/file/rewosiposanozuzixamemilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/29878305923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myagenda.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/releserudogefuzisusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.creativetalentnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71762839963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harnettcountyhba.com/userfiles/file/86982830005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61623535402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hai-bi.com/uploads/files/202109180354337793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010459.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10459 21288 bytes
SHA-256: b9afbd2daad02680d215b1cc44ed2881b321ee04024e5e80c4a02894bb421535
font_01_sfnt_off00013c2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C2B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015442.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15442 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 34da8a48d259994dcc57e61e351717bea24e2b6bd49d68d79b92972224290a3d