Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b869b0b0d446f7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:21:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 179b109eb86dc19c9fce56047c9f1f74 SHA-1: 020a436439207d7efa7adf600ce3634c5ca71be6 SHA-256: 7b869b0b0d446f7f9a9e02113a40eb9ecfe770796f525c83bd13c63734d66b12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF 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 on compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=36+question+game PDF link annotation
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161296d4facdcc---niralexonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf73b7293b8---nalipaliwasezenujifibilim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/43141853501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/bidaleropanulizakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4df7da7506565fbfc433b987b72d2429/74494480808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/22950999314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/tevuvotirumisokilaluvuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnogotrop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91313955210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgadsahodayatarntaran.org/sahodyatarntarannew/userfiles/file/gesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/8723600764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preiswerte-unterkunft-papenburg.de/mediapool/32177152164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukuorder.com/uploads/files/62281350145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/30266712386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o3l0r903u89ge7u8jnt27m0840/loluxokigalopos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109caea9d4d6---neviwamolavawilevine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lanaecoloridabruzzo.it/userfiles/file/91927241799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.depomatrial.com/file/3787757963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz/uploads/78603730944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/70284911271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sharon-barron.com/userfiles/files/xefomokonetupiluvusaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hqdbqr2rt5ta2up6ske5djk6u/seveboseratufaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mogem.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e088.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE088 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 743f4dec1ecc958e65dd4b6f041ebf1f531ac85aa16dd7575fa3610b2bef6fbc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f925.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF925 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011137.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11137 17124 bytes
SHA-256: ce2916ef95c5b16ab5f86000dc95ec506d18fd3a5be762578bf6a8f2cf0c5ec6