Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b5bf2da6e009a5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-06-10 12:15:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 18a9ff8a881749e8c0c04e80145b065e SHA-1: aff5a6073322801bd07ccd0dc1707287b61f601a SHA-256: 7b5bf2da6e009a5f15668d730e102120f5a21ddc13577168484cb2a8c9246218
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using a lure related to free font downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=arabic+calligraphy+fonts+free+download+photoshop PDF link annotation
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095a501a8838---namadoxapaxigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/90525956437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1acc42c69b---33991023338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608710e339a47---regisebonodakezutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba4bc6c0b8---53217217458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43bd8716ff---62984860325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sf5t1hfl4pp9l5tg43ne8mutek/73577719418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fd996cccb4a8df491ecdee1a0835bec/vokimoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c95d993f80---93628588412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/jimasigaxoligageragiver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/nawutos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gp5466qnvmcdl030e82q1uv090/gobugimupinitagakoxorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourceokaloosawalton.com/files/public/82073070721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bb274bc29cb90545a163ef66aa9f0bf/gezuxefufisewisiluratisum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guiaterrassa.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpfile/42989432761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b309e31eab5---bajiluxiwagonuzuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crisismobile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wevonoxegoripuvupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010961.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10961 5740 bytes
SHA-256: 00e2dfaf9a7203de07b6d46f66eba186633178072648d345e4461e84a674a060
font_01_sfnt_off00011cfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CFD 10676 bytes
SHA-256: ce3b0fee870452588696569a26e08f2f2154701a546797409ab903e42d579a29