Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b4abbc32361e894…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-08-17 00:21:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0b4b5ad578081caacfb6676c37c135d8 SHA-1: d066e376fd3e8a657cbe669df69282fbf055417b SHA-256: 7b4abbc32361e8948ec0eed301cd6603d00df2e7006d2cf108f7538c13eed225
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external resources, likely for phishing or malware delivery, rather than presenting legitimate document content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://lmleadmanagement.com/userfiles/files/xufuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/sopetomoxunuzajibevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/75903787108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27aaf6c27896d4c99cbbd6119646ac2d/gikeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.champagne-cornevin.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/didabokiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2eb31eb92b---gesuvelimon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d36cf9a97da64ac03cbeb0c58f7a192b/nupezokotovowoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrva.com/uploads/files/42471822767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b6564068c---diziruwogasokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kgjoi8utk2v16s2a4nl7atsrrp/vopeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.pl/upload/38295324918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e603c51aa40---67126862066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail.teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/difan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cfb1b482f3dae6e361c0edbbdc5a8d5/gejuxofana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chargers68-50th.com/clients/3/3d/3dd154274af4887fbe356f6dcfc18689/File/46835806499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc1e1cf48c---66987313654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b747be9aef0---jikusinubenigisis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a5f649a9f---33305625625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obchodsezlatem.cz/upload/files/tazorobejexipepazijuzep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunjewelsonline.com/userfiles/file/22291408515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/gamexosudutawafuxipiwuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49c6519d69---votojufabedudukiridofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b5571898851bcdaba2ea4fa92c96796/15814230115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togetherwewalkny.org/clients/2/24/2411cc079aa0f0d7fd57f81c6163ecfd/File/92633942552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=define+cautionary+versesPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000caf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAF5 20064 bytes
SHA-256: 88531640e947dce80d853e0a7880a01c7a7c87730846f3ae69b6685efada0000
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD0F 2836 bytes
SHA-256: fcca4be00f95c5262fb403c640cf375dbd1e1ff7bb423f2685f20be725b19ede
font_02_sfnt_off000108fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108FC 16740 bytes
SHA-256: bb9bc0a279f059f8cdf9f71ce0b47311df7b96454ff5aac2d307d06d0b2f7e70
font_03_sfnt_off000120ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_04_sfnt_off000138d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138D1 10564 bytes
SHA-256: d4f49bfea0d99d2e2d3ef305fab42d759108cefdf952dba6a903d3e9e53204ee