Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b383a17d20db47b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-17 11:44:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3d538f1964d0290d94b816023befc608 SHA-1: 89ac87dcf6f45e3fe294c1995f440e56f5ec3b38 SHA-256: 7b383a17d20db47bc63b1deb2b55d8053c278ed4988ab39bde2df1c53fac0ca8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The 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 hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs, while numerous, do not provide a clear secondary payload, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c26b06b48d---mawagobofivim.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/53934515377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/duwegufiduzufijunojivedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artkulinaria.pl/sites/default/files/file/7427479253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mn8qnuhgts8r9rlpto805k40gd/murudimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5b67b37a18---juwuxunudosivuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/361690cadb0d910e18a5016870967965/68333183263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/vukabajonudosizuwagebivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/vesafop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mqskin.com/luutru/files/vobanipibofunuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/18918060418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/232d0a91e10e3220f5812f7acfbece32/54305035035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cadf8a07edd---kozaxefafegidugotinudulum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69e6498b1d11944dd64a73f5ebe12ade/32393924377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.com/resimler/files/11821778248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchlink.org/userfiles//file/31450229852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55aa27b7a9e205b4b48d4f4981ecbf41/kekorurogafera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9456c4497---jonimixuguvawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a803bd1f238---98510643200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/majeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristorantebiscione.com/userfiles/files/64595074440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bue0j05r6da5kjbmd5s383kk1r/jexowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+archive+in+marathiPDF 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 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 3cc2feff216d745c9cefa8623b93202a93794ad0ddc900aaa623db9d3934431e
font_01_sfnt_off00011a34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A34 10628 bytes
SHA-256: fbf79483a9fc6bb429b278d5fce6788b13c88cffa8a4175493857642c55688b9
font_02_sfnt_off0001325c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1325C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1