Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b2b148e0f5c4ab9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:01:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4d77e83a029d7aa4f5f7a46fc4a23073 SHA-1: 5c696cb63506b275ec8801d1d3f05cdfd306f1cd SHA-256: 7b2b148e0f5c4ab9d1a1c7802cf459cf472ae2ed66d138618214f84f47de16fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. This suggests the document is designed to act as a link farm, potentially for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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 http://stewartreunion2020.com/clients/2/2a/2a0d9dcdd57715375c9f4393c24df0f2/File/5935630324.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44fdfd0068e62fbe3934847f222e76e0/39377688761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc1da2d7b7---lesogotejufugoxiwaguxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/030795c841a51c6c824e70fd18094a72/9685744780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hochrainer-elsner.at/upload/files/16602963669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/17553315671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/gokagapakerivitis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppies-4u.com/clients/e/e7/e7f09595da74c05d2059c741134300d2/File/xapesomozexilunexemunubod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0905e0af18420f1f27e8d2c2848da72f/17944301475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manavpublicschool.org/manav/userfiles/file/71648519660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/22473204932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/dimisijamavito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd75dd0c137---87819269255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae1e2610154---8686880703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/fedokuveduto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://passionsavannah.com/clients/0/0a/0a61c075fa1d7d91f8ce2ef588f7e9ce/File/jagobubimurom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/baluziwolawavakekokatim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/lajokiretijevizipopaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/39792095615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/pemugeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/34844518224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endemic-capital.ru/uploads/files/48526029935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077363905e84---95169661127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/vemusedisujajosemamavogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abad581962a---43263614043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/450906a8dd093130de255bbe4f111031/viduxuwofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=strength+of+materials+objective+questions+and+answers+pdf+for+mechanicalPDF 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_off0000e908.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE908 11808 bytes
SHA-256: 2a91b42f979623ffbd89e56379f47ed82ccd1ece2c6b0432b7ac3ecfa1c6ea4d
font_01_sfnt_off0001045a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1045A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C6C 17768 bytes
SHA-256: 9c47ada9e379c719110add90ac937eda6a2beeba1da7c0f8201559344584d464