Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b532db3c65b0945…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:12:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1e3c50dc4da3bfa6b8fad474e038b31c SHA-1: 0e591d19b3440be1e132798eb873f63d0af49ba8 SHA-256: 7b532db3c65b0945c78cbad4c3a3392135e7bc4d9f3c52a3537634eaeb1ba325
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The 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 pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs are likely part of this lure, directing users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://paradisoseminatrici.it/userfiles/files/37632852312.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/72426288929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me//files/14833187711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27f81b94cef48107abb2d6006c91c840/82444284394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwunojifito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e06t979jhnrfndbc4tgue3n08g/woxobakebevativ.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/58333705583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leposeur.fr/site/upload/ckfinder/files/30982737203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanart21.com/files/userfiles/file/46315379445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barbazan-debat.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kigurefaginiminuvirabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06e599665d02913b373042087a829ad9/52780235645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldapa.eus/files/galeria/files/29296401461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mdteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6123668808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adice-area.com/pictures/files/46450342597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilayunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zamalusigumilelevikik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/61176742654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesnowmanicecream.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/norix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/migoviverezadasevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaskinfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b798c9f9e2af69c3a5b950a06e4ade8e/File/vilujoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/32024000670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53548414184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1907b9abe---mezogunimomuwugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/12570100303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbe39261020---81494121329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=mahendra+guru+railway+gs+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000be04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE04 16884 bytes
SHA-256: ac266b9f98135178109ff4bdae38073611357f29a5cc5dc694b6c9ff8e4d70d9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e924.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE924 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 9b5c5efd1c3cb008537bf3910cf6da944be4fb316a387756d3bc9024c40f37a0
font_02_sfnt_off0001024a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1024A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1