Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b063448d2bdbf6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-14 09:17:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4065542744e9e7c93f389d872c93e1f0 SHA-1: 08510e773e00b848c4a6d00d2a7073abbff264af SHA-256: 7b063448d2bdbf6f02a5a0494936c3de4e006bbf7545d5710c287a24d3d6b2da
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malicious download attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://humidorio.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/miwoxasomopiro.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rowanmkt.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52370598622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dawahcity.com/userfiles/file/94651531739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301f1bee573---wogamixepinolarefilujoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artvideo74.ru/upfiles/files/gakaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387885e3cf6---pojop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.org/uploads/file/lemoxesox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onyx-innovations.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jamonedosetugomedoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1ca91d70e---86534042996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zartmobilia.com/userfiles/file/20210909205033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613163dd12b20---67674901802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/lelapabotojuxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bretagne.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pekoromileroxaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ride-on-earth.com/images/blog/file/92684610106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockefellersgold.hu/editor_up/besofimeredisimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cfu9bc1efac9a9azfdsb7b9d1f0j.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52256091305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traslochimontalto.it/userfiles/files/jalebibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanhungcorp.com/images/uploads/files/wevev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyrosesschool.com/userfiles/file/natavax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/86319948205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18958706155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.com/userfiles/files/minut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekreativecompany.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/31870922555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/16363301219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=epic+war+4+downloadPDF 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_off0000e1c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9DA 17256 bytes
SHA-256: 74204324ed25746fb7bddd3570ac564d33ff6cd97679ab9351ab802de4c39064
font_02_sfnt_off0001264f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1264F 10256 bytes
SHA-256: 8b278195c79ad4d307b0f31045932df0e7840e8af1e9406b3a9079a809fed444