Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b3ac3ef77399d3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-08-21 11:49:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d5cc0f73560243ea0a518b193305178b SHA-1: dc01a83c50843a0f836e34e4703bbb8e61076b2f SHA-256: 7b3ac3ef77399d3c589cbcee8a7629ee851791878623b6f9c7cc4410a763a459
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many external URIs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure suggests it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://usdcp.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/86049904345.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ro7nbreju8srjr84ibgsnujoas/443685938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929ee7a1434---28575894620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/kekulunanuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081767dc0bc0---bepikaxidepatuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021050111131573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819a7ec19d1---47405279815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.com/upload/files/dagasazexezadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac0246641c218036449f814865dc3a24/dumojazadaropokogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/20951845948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodlack.cz/userfiles/file/nexirirozugetaxosebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f9a253612---49431173211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rdhilinte4o4e2q4kqa8vvjua5/62736073531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oriontradecom.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luxagipanidijokaxutome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/kuboxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1knjs9mr1u1e6ojlbmeo7p3of/99936323184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://md-bud.pl/szklo/photos/file/banasewalogen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetobox-budapest.hu/uploads/files/ganelujaxinazija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a04195999a4b8d41a6e034f754f95af2/mipinaganasobikevuxudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f468fd05be689b3a022d81fa5e82009/56723884863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilsogno-bomboniere.com/userfiles/files/lejedidobenerugojevol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beta-rc.com/upload/files/pitekefesunatipeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b07c3d15aad---20183472618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcaa47886ef---72165051227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ldvr044stp6vnl0b93gg5tfu0/puvaberidalamosunevat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=where+can+i+buy+avalon+organics+thickening+shampooPDF 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_off0000c5ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5CA 11328 bytes
SHA-256: af6116cc05ec114ffdf6c7cf64b01bf0400f1425e729c7cf569b8f15e79f24d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000e018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE018 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f82a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF82A 16224 bytes
SHA-256: 14ce82161175b4c6f292464eca2c386c35dea1c6e4c264d8a878f77a13eeb4c2