Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7937be2b4763904f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 03:22:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 17487da4ab9fb59b33c4f06259fb8f73 SHA-1: 2ab67e07bd31aea14588184b8e0d93e1b654dc62 SHA-256: 7937be2b4763904f2febaab25cc14d7c3deb8622486d7d23291d2ee138f24ab9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing content, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://noithatlekhanh.com/Images_upload/files/fawej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dienmattroigiatot.com/uploads/files/momuleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa0f3e45f4---vuvuzimimesamizonapofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724f4a07926---14784396557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/58981073915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7equpem24jhmre7f4r3c081fpk/65878858911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dereformasenalicante.com/archivos/files/35465407470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c77ccd9ba9---sagavipozefesijital.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heizler.hu/files/file/51465725073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607507321ef92---57694672356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://embeddedhr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73053951809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annekienlen.fr/imagesfile/paxarijepavanebaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6f05579caf36ec1344bad193bcad2d8/64442487732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northwestpixie-bobs.com/clients/e/e1/e1941a3904c49320334fd90e0ed9e852/File/81993317133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f76b4045ce---64407365016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb19d4c6b4---womipimudusidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/jororegarareve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6bee46892a5f3135056177cef817bea/kodeboxozoxaferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n8bsh4ue30ddka6vjhr509hrk1/43750100290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/16924709359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=focus+on+form+and+focus+on+formsPDF 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_off0000f86f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF86F 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 2ef54c5f5af17439f390031b6ffdb929d91241977bf4fb650fe7279aa00dd844
font_01_sfnt_off00010fbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FBC 17352 bytes
SHA-256: ff7d05283f0a38490bee57f855a15eb6ea0491969e2e65de4847c33e8686c696
font_02_sfnt_off00013cc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CC8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1