Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b37785940e66376…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 17:10:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f55e7db7bcb9037588f22c4d660a41fe SHA-1: febd344b86334736a7d9b70a8275a0af794d85e9 SHA-256: 7b37785940e66376216890b04e05b8e8344a8e53b98a819c4095971b71f3a36c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure itself is also noted for having duplicate object bodies, which can sometimes be used to obscure malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5a880b9505---rudokibijik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sakem.org/userfiles/files/benodonudarimamuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.de/fichiers/newsletter/file/75096611450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irastuff.com/admin/ckfinder/uploads/files/rivumemogokagojitariwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/lesibepekeputuber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fresh-cherries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16417789189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poldercuptrofee.nl/site/admin/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/96262223691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morabia.fi/images/file/rewud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/37500837633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/pexazawirimapuvogizuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732ebc8110f---wusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ac41da0c2bdd69a4d0e49f53ea84a77/83583105109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/10743552005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607990bbeb6a2---lifazudapuwuzoxiwefaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607966efe6360---87648889996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calmoinc.com/upload/editor/file/21068717082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubsdom5lvbgeoo4br259qas2nb/83676840952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhanvietgroup.com/demo/xay-dung-tnx/upload/files/487105954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894dca13ea2---jejugol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210506133116806396726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608087d82cf79---robuxume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ffe51254d4---47197188346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ab1a9a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/56040115460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da1df99f48---xajifegewex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=verb+tenses+error+correction+worksheetPDF 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_off0000dd1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD1E 10404 bytes
SHA-256: e6e958fa98cb17c620a9deeb500a9c5e6302c53992c894a0cba195ce269e359e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B0 19720 bytes
SHA-256: 67de9cdad28e078dc682b10b9118a14324afce108cf1b6139bc7ee32181d09da
font_02_sfnt_off000126a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1