Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b177b5d749b4bf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-08-26 01:49:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6cc3422ec160a7e79d899e5c2f309d65 SHA-1: 8281cd76680cc039f8a62a1b5bd693d820bd5258 SHA-256: 7b177b5d749b4bf76c51ccc8266d896745177fbe8f9d394ef9d1f5337f16aafc
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm or containing links to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure reinforces this phishing-like behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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 https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/21768863879.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://proclima-membranes.ru/userfiles/file/46136863946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6950cd1ded6cc5b75094ca9536acf4bf/fezoxexepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dp-engineers.com/admin/userfiles/file/rakajaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portakalweb.net/home/portakal/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77662344594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ab1a9a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/wetelegivul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/150717415327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rutka.pl/media/upload/files/cdb221fba995f9852e74c4b3a1ec5e35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--xhq021fvrwdth.com/d/files/kifunepon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a2ddb6ae24ef0ed4467fda4618fef86/90242539577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/15014882880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnd8umnfun2s0m0v2lttluself/konikixuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/39072783034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/movilifizigepetozuvadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irk-yoga.ru/upload/files/30520745609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piauiaqui.com/ckfinder/files/92225832798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konferencii.org/web/uploads/assets/file/natesolazil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89a06f06f3d2b5b82a1ddc030530b588/dulegixabajabovugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210818_121028.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b9bc4155eba4a218500951ed8ef4672/dutabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derey.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zafomumezukawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huonglonghotel.com/uploads/image/files/natokufin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+improve+deadlift+strengthPDF 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_off0000d925.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD925 16440 bytes
SHA-256: 3382765317894f87e888c7c63d041d20950739a9bbe52af9eb87e37b6e80753a
font_01_sfnt_off00010372.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10372 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B89 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 887d0cd0e7989170e797d33a7b1647fbe96ef305e664475bf3d54b23bb1e11e2