Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b677f59b5a7a41a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-07-20 19:13:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 45f56b6429b3ef6ba9550b39e56c82e3 SHA-1: 86b03d22e70ece12dc3f24be87b4a1e48b4c73a7 SHA-256: 7b677f59b5a7a41a63bb748858f9835726b828555050079f87d933caf784400b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, with many distinct hosts and URLs. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious sites suggests a phishing or SEO manipulation attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fq8h2beo4tc1vdvdj3vj9eqje7/tiluwowisukawewipode.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b41185510d---kurariwemotirivezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb8c41413a---1668198631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10187c6ee7f31160c3a3a64f79546cac/77385170765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b93dc78e43---pixuvire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9k8g4k8bf1h4f43lhuq6iu60ac/43017192263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee1887eb0d6---5144029209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebaad83a23---jujow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608070955e858---jitok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p74271tqh7lmv1aq5i4ka46dk4/40446911389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verandapattaya.com/userfiles/files/pitifolepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/nadurarerarawefotuvizev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a205d45691---9315669178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bf9e0ae031bc5d4238c35931c192276/68336672765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905e56809b2---fezeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f9c7c2b11---18471372490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/15502548136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210531_4CA57EC917ED7E0D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cde9079e24---18179132149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/58183151978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t857u00rfnj0fma1fm6d2hpst4/golowewepune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097b9fb2a9a3---rewiwimijen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=tightness+in+upper+abdomen+and+chestPDF 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_off0000fd40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD40 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011557.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11557 11116 bytes
SHA-256: b29989f68bcc96a015f2103c0be2a29fcd76098a2953572bd9852b1eae53bcd2
font_02_sfnt_off00012eb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EB2 16068 bytes
SHA-256: ab9ef4e88e2b2d66886b6273290661bdf0a854ba3137613abfc3020696b9dd5b