Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7918ab76753a6e67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 04:47:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c748b0d627e8b738803b2a781b1b243f SHA-1: 4d268f31636d590edc983651831ae00df1514f0c SHA-256: 7918ab76753a6e678f61cb4150beec7f1807389563b3fa5c44b86257041358e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which host other PDFs. This suggests a link farm designed to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bff10308bb0---33105246674.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3149baacff7261aa5dcca9a05643d7c/juberazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/xebojorurojerigukid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33fa96b31b32d8a15003f8cc39ac2917/gavinorusukizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d608ea261---1652254182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccarrentals.com/files/file/11884899007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c224c5b059a---makitipanaletodapamevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e28c04830---70093298578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/160e9c4947beeac5d5b5adb8334b6f16/kejodisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca72fe5565---20139489040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8fdcb73e55---56700863036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/70152134497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4s68792u0ab1333aelr54ps0t4/nesiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb7b72257e9---mixibejepuladojekukebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb6fb15696---nexemolorafamoxibizomiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/841f00b0196de817069c27fbcaed1381/mabizora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35033475cf3c30f7ebaa303364526247/tojivebadotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c84cb168e3f---votixalefozereriniwax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fandimnarodaku.cz/upload/file/meraxumesokozumusawiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11rtjg8chkemvj72p7tfr3foc0/75732107539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdsfmc7nngmf0vdhir61k2ok65/51334099373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608444cc08508---wibudijizek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=3+examples+of+arithmetic+sequencePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010508.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10508 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 0e53a0f205685369952fb806f53bcf75950d66c6c0a1ecdedf017944db9f73c0
font_01_sfnt_off00011ef3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF3 19596 bytes
SHA-256: a88f43467853c1ad98f938126cb91ad2b92d234aa1678559ec562cc89b61640a
font_02_sfnt_off0001529b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1529B 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 325c5f5cda05429ae92d15c23118ca1b8712e485108c584e1e30b0ff615913b7
font_03_sfnt_off000167c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x167C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1