Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b32bbe149c4b73d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:58:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6e56c293e03979afe81234e74c4cfe79 SHA-1: 607ca7dfbe2d271570de0a4ee110494838959dfd SHA-256: 7b32bbe149c4b73da90e6a21ca1bcbaf21cb23d79d7b6d17a3d650bce4c0f177
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a link farm structure on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=incoterms+2020+pdf+chart PDF link annotation
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf1fe8aad2---mivuzutizuroxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/198459af4b594523a3c142b1f5870b4c/97078095819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8c992d5d42---84558882575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0d9tgapmeo7g7usuq6hu4jl6c/kelomefabajapiluxerubuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://australiancaravancentre.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jamitelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagabb.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48647301092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdi7ollttt5dp0igm6f50rirmk/46666252397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/28343594338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/75542911438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/19783794831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiro-seiko.com/upload/files/1482015405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestizhstroycompany.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/ruxowozimirowutotovine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/peziwinodisozero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2tron6sqk8d7v9hvv8sla4oa1/63529371722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcea2bd68612adb448381576c63e9a25/zefokevexubepudamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novehorizonty.sk/userfiles/file/55987431009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/logolatekob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremyco.com/app/webroot/docs/file/19643450903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da7d490e0f982800234ccf13e4cf1626/72789033330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumosushingrill.com/uploads/files/tapikarenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b15fa81b5c3---36051451854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4e9757ea1b557e3e0580be0b714a208/41964354677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sethhukumchandschool.com/userfiles/file/84235070880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allg-gyn.ch/userfiles/file/xamodaroludaguvigovexuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paitoonbox.com/userfiles/files/suvuzokedawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d646.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD646 17580 bytes
SHA-256: 0d88860d3c49d8b5dfaa8e7d7b3382358e29574077c612de05460c8c87e1fbe2
font_01_sfnt_off000103fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103FB 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 030af77db5ba76a4c773b1e50c812f6ad5588a50d10880d391b8d35603a7247f
font_02_sfnt_off00011d36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1