Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b6ec75e86978f2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 15:11:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 78a745065b6b4d50feb53d548a454d1e SHA-1: 2c256b7bc5590574ef08bbc3cd1d2788cdef2c34 SHA-256: 7b6ec75e86978f2fa926d17f5d7ac8b753e8b975bcd5952bdd8b216dfaf370be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of these links and the overall heuristic firings indicate a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754bf47e749---razimikunusatajixowoku.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chauphongasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gsf6n4se1irkaricqrihb34j6/38248094191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/nozawojijolufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/93558560602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///202106078385_718142940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8fc5ce803b---44438291140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/79141290223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opuntia.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e3a3e4b352d41ca95edd4b60566d503/8755857264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607479f44b188---40859510597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729c1d74255---dudefumukogabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong-thudo.com/img/files/wijerafofoxanuzogatupidig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0335be415d3a9368441fd3bd72d45978/18983273893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamtomchabahai.com/uploads/files/files/9675713142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7050711841---bapuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5129c1804---wixowitapoboke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matskaren.se/anvandarbilder/203/files/72576533143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00i22anqnp218d9psha7fgjgvv/rofufisaxanosiwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608841c7df135---mapilimufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astek-telem.fr/userfiles/file/wasufizogidafob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e78329704---talupesusarox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/68362058621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/37451326936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83db41edd1b6bd1bfeb290bc792aab86/barowenizuluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///9986526010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trekkingsapatours.com/upload/files/tatubijonilezalip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=analysis+the+new+colossusPDF 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_off0000fec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEC9 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 8d836f90cd59e41325471d5892c9144e4ea3684ea52fe2342840250b017cf8d4
font_01_sfnt_off00012c55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001446c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1446C 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 11b3dfa5b20d687ef6616e141be18f1d416372fa6a000ea3a8108935d378d358