Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b1506587af167dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:28:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 88f86000304fb63be66c8b5112bd924b SHA-1: 9e9679f074c18f9798573b93bdadcc61d11e7261 SHA-256: 7b1506587af167ddd73ccae285efdaabd456491c401d633928cb0cd5144a99ee
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 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to direct users to malicious external sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5da50a85a0b3af9b4303156dec11f875/15050446968.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/wajufala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/11729723272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01e80c7d21beb50749a3c7a1bed5b2d8/48699286115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/vegimebeketetiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9ce062b343c7c26a9be455e2a6d634e/robujigegosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c61f99ec697---mefuwuzaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plafondchauffant.fr//img/user/file/18635056277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbpcpentecostalchurch.com/clients/65183/File/34752644301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-qigong-nice.com/upload/files/gobajedabuzonax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967c74ed2e4---41711256744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/kubapusuvirunedadis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a70046b1adb---delupoxezatuwamudizilupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dishandspoonproductions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fiwatazopizikefujajub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/11233691551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/505fje4hdtno56q823o46jlnv1/89593471772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23s9v0apgsl060ip7shad75to0/82126253749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0dd32c244ea3eb929543af90a176153/71681402260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f01af10ec4---46172235963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hgjdujmarnlae30ddifhsu6nrh/nawematuxenelepaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/soruki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/39056202627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090766208bd8---59422039049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92365891640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f08f3df2da3ad96c50b6f731d9e9db33/sokole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c93efc033c---xetevagixedukinemidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=business+idioms+worksheet+pdfPDF 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_off0000f0e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E6 17972 bytes
SHA-256: 78e6e6f811c282475f99d45fe3f06ee3b5ce68d5a33241b797643d8e2c77bcea
font_01_sfnt_off00011f46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001375d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1375D 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 8e104ad1701412747653ea960b5a11632d5180070c941e309b2815afd3046279