Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b0cf3fb7dbfd1ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:54:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 51b016392f65d3a265a97a9aa8aed2e0 SHA-1: ed194a930c0df3580dbca5bf082813e529f20f1c SHA-256: 7b0cf3fb7dbfd1eaad1f2a658b103a40f1ba893a06bee51c118f5fa38c81911c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its true intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=orskey+s680+user+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe9b426d45---29142824715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09792ce85961d6854875e5f896e42142/wegolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7ejehorc9blg5hp6ivkhqu8vr/jevatalazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-brno.com/files/46935284878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/52514406679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9878d8d9b1---duwaninarebilevol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piqiso.ru/userfiles/file/32497521072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emprenderem.cl/files/20163791780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1855f7126fa360a27df731922d0d8ff/wudenigexez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmi.lu/userfiles/files/sojisurapukibesez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/46344768419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danfilenemd.com/clients/67744/File/mikuvadajebeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///61641710035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d115ec99a2---notader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modaxch.com/userfiles/files/zadulejugodufekejebefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbpcpentecostalchurch.com/clients/65183/File/xobezagizawusilukanuzip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cqpd0nvqtvfuc3m01c3tapc69/penazuvipuvapuranibapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69kni80rn49tqatqr8dg43o1b2/pakunuluwadaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/18303726305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cef40ecb5---71507153389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/fuwivonafakivazupasitosug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606f978a2d1b1---zuvezevexalazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072431367b32---47136548352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57639952463.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_off0000e530.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE530 17888 bytes
SHA-256: e1d796ae44e8c617e209fe0a0982ee83130a3907c9bdcb8f9cee9d1528f37b37
font_01_sfnt_off000113ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012be1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BE1 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 4b953608e336ad1179332a092143a0e22ef8a93cfdda694b43f9597053267a37