Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b0c15a3e0332240…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 08:24:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 450c2a7a798ddd1ba0e70a3547c7bb7d SHA-1: e066ca421f9846fe9439300cc30bbf3190325a59 SHA-256: 7b0c15a3e033224031301c9528cc98851cc9e8e528add8ab8f3f82fca6cec5ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, with multiple distinct hosts identified. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64b1d6c51e---dozibibutibuboxugevuzetar.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b184f25cce---24402734506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d38a2e01731af3103bef69702cdd45d/mijawubesinome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b4a1f175e---zepilegadadetufekatimirov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae51165f270---27999240381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a88b21014---kigiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/51034696958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a60dfa2c0a---25501485827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82d1201d22---79515256517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/madogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db6f825530---limazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safaraval.com/basefile/safaravalcom/files/76327154807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/92716343701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orsolyajuhasz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuzojagizofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/katabotovutatijofavuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8a5358753---lelofupinunitonezufaposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f26d146b3---wixamos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/52753982813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghebinhduong.com/media/ftp/file/99844837212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32e83ab3707d61fc3e8dd710510563dc/kobaxakividuvinawinaxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/73969615727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=scrolling+through+meaningPDF 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_off0000e9c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C6 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 79b35fb592ce98519fd17771f54493c44fc80a6aec21ce7937bcca8d0b9dd419
font_01_sfnt_off00010214.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10214 23540 bytes
SHA-256: e3028175f6bb4e7d34d753428792a997ac22ac72ffd44fb5df1476a5d78accd8
font_02_sfnt_off00013d05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1