Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b87e97f78bd9c7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 13:54:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f7c1a5fda4d2b4e21cd19cd9667319b1 SHA-1: 4cc085cfbc4644ba3adc7601298c473b0503036e SHA-256: 7b87e97f78bd9c7bb9250d6fb3e3997d30a4b814aeda983fa7aadd771f40228e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains. The embedded URLs suggest the primary goal is to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=to+thine+own+self+be+true+full+quote PDF link annotation
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a00ce8f33944ff854d333602f349fd99/84763556400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/kegepovavapuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15d940fc7b866ee19a54e7cf4ec90111/3696660148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820e84750f7---53681189134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/660a2c2ddb689b0d1085acdee0a0281f/pipezofovutiwadijused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7jstbmjqamrjhf4sbeg7a9r3p/vagilotebogudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/xesusejupudakid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/chr7nh1rhof53o2bfj813imjr0/65774262885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a7e699627---fasogevogebav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608681d12018a---dapiwateriwobok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08884af4798f69c0700514e8b16128ce/89679931051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bd8cae0383482bd245247edc67dd125/8828947486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2301fcc9040f9e1df294d8fec8ae5408/21560398142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99bd3b3d7b315dd4bbf87ffe487a73ed/2108289174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1dd13d41d6f111d66ac594aec28e518/27738418765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f01ee748a2---fewoneradejenilufodobasov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/21266295266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samavetpharm.com/userfiles/files/24228183017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ace134c44---saxetibumugibimiwosada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc513cbc549---42161535406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telenovella-bg.com/files/80314785426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82625f3501---jedifomerowexufutek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/rufajiwedewugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangmalungtea.com/userfiles/file/94858194600.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_off0000e567.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE567 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 7d81dbc34a5b33d22ceb801a342f4e77ad3137ee97852d84c9f6c85fe81ec2a7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000115a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115A2 17512 bytes
SHA-256: 72008f7c84668cb1eb3ea3acae40c6ae3a4b7d0824db7dc7d238adf876abd4a8