Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b2f3f65b0b2ceb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-23 19:38:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 68f76b5ab64b06cd6fd25992420bf34f SHA-1: e60c98cfb80dd98c39d52baa75df582b27cb47d2 SHA-256: 7b2f3f65b0b2ceb32acdcb6edb30a0b315e02b37ace9bf09674913fe026c581b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute or redirect to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing further analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bixowitezitekirevoxoge.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7f64852d4859c6e3dac19840b890d08/tubamaromane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d044cf87491d3f7fa4a9413e42f67d7/76352001214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashhadgardi724.ir/basefile/mashhadgardi724/files/ruwikopoxopusivexiporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff9aa53cf0deef8e433aa98c852b4f55/26534348415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c747a67e4---54860314703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/amhtr071oo9t4v6t15o2iu5j01/baxukabutejev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/70644113295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3d4865afa3696f41fa07a744ecb04d4/97497818444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aebaaa8b83bad7ffe11f36b4e9aea2a4/71358766095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/itmjupgr93qtoaf82lf39tsh58/balisukaxevotupek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b7fb15a6d---linikona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de6497ed9c---84983983742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssk4k3aol0hh5jc97ffsfvbeq4/bigarobijosarikikerigepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreejians.com/userfiles/file/47092815749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/4980367082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadirumshootingstars.com/userfiles/file///ruperagebafotorugonebofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bclgrouptt.com/userfiles/file/tuziwidiwofereren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972103e1317---9448124600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5af262feb9747ffa55a6060bf8148fce/fovejapipokufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37ebc6f643ef89839093c420b89217fb/11673138032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1b0cf86016e5eb15c7b817149adef16/92233523039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e289c4504---54144893055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+auto+clicker+in+roblox+skywarsPDF 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_off0000ec0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC0F 10848 bytes
SHA-256: c14c6bb334c3450907aef36283b89b1ab65561830c7a409cacb6c445393d8cdb
font_01_sfnt_off0001054d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054D 16840 bytes
SHA-256: eec53f9a88c94196833a930b422e9b83001aee240b37bad18a0a4b252fc57d52
font_02_sfnt_off0001315a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1315A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1