Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b2eb68013b2a2a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.6 KB Created: 2021-06-19 09:46:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8f5fb97f21bb050707323698eb8e66b9 SHA-1: 9202d8c27566398d14f81ca9d3eb71ac81a9df76 SHA-256: 7b2eb68013b2a2a2345020cb8fa4e7fe2847b0d6498ed5ff746526134a6e55d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to IELTS speaking questions, likely intended to trick users into clicking the embedded malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ebc8bb9e92---dilegimuwiboveked.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/suzidufefalafizixizeboloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/093a21o3dc67rruifl5mohcf64/kikoxevisumodefusana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e216ce5a6---42257391497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/87356284656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coebmsf.com/userfiles/file/68162851990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/810c21860bc6cd221f827f14324fa326/gatakogozupelozefefowotik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8a3b14aeb---86027586775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5fd52fd79---pituveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a0b88ffcd09c036d84f15638efd8a05/bawima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791a43cdce2---zesijovukiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03cf5c5d60---71870815805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a0f78441e---woluvejepine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/45926746931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804b8f8130c---51568260618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42fd7da0d97a40818fe0333e1ab1f716/82555646100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+speaking+questions+2020+part+1PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001687e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1687E 5440 bytes
SHA-256: c60cc687a2bd92166ebaeee69a40f9874d3f14d19e4745feffce9c3a4ac7a0b3
font_01_sfnt_off00017b15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17B15 11088 bytes
SHA-256: f0bda67f9c6bcdbb9f02ed944ce3f8fdc3bfded8127fcc4727150624f702c6ef