Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b227fba07f46eff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-07-08 05:01:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e7987ceb76646069543ebf72098c55dc SHA-1: 075321dc875b2594a7fc49a8b83688cf914a059c SHA-256: 7b227fba07f46eff86b8d8899e60a58cffd5e190af98320bff4482b813391ae5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links and the ClamAV detection strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.saammohaseb.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70eea410be90afd9e01648bcc2ef96eb/21845983338.pdf
    • http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51207022413.pdf
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2db6049b72112cb72fd7377d75cf616/46264588938.pdf
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e170dd1fe1da60cc52419ac23ab451f2/darolimojasozowedizuk.pdf
    • http://cabin4kids.org/clients/0/05/050cd0fff5f75fdfd14851583cc0de74/File/tasado.pdf
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/65035391585.pdf
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d76ae0a637d---mimelelavisilofilitijitob.pdf
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d0c6a8e4a90e2bf0bbba2d00dbf62f8/3178131579.pdf
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/rirosawapuvevetu.pdf
    • http://tutaylamhet.com/storage/ckfinder/files/22589291914.pdf
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g31g40tva2ce48pah040oii1if/12922326787.pdf
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5a719e4355---mefoxewexit.pdf
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/kimuvoxuxajufazabeju.pdf
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34f2a03810507da50d24706530ab2397/buwaduzev.pdf
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/719355b96fb662de538dcdeda781f217/80872822815.pdf
    • https://viboot.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rifosozobotetefodefizedid.pdf
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608496cb3687b---seforogetugorikamumigemez.pdf
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/11692468242.pdf
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93ba36a901f32d8441b3608525e2935a/xuvofojobunetop.pdf
    • http://k-souz.com/userfiles/file/nedovobunuw.pdf
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ea2a37c24---pevuguj.pdf
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d728a5123a84932b36f9c778246f1a09/rizejim.pdf
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gp2q63kvce82625ca60i1ocbc4/belirisajupubegup.pdf
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kn44h62gh7uq6hcfqnrf8rl6s5/38142279539.pdf
    • http://sbox-technology.com/upload/datoteke/7527000854.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=affordable+vet+clinic
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5e3.bin
823eae003d2e8c1c7f6e0e3af1cb822f6e00cb898da0cc547e44d984350664e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5E3 17048 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001025e.bin
a278449e646883540ebd6bf3e4d2b1592050606bd517eb3931f2a076002fdb96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1025E 10488 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011a50.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A50 16792 bytes