Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b8d71b9e69cc70b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-06-12 10:38:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 744f15b107ea9bb2b6b94af03a72d356 SHA-1: 96939f5e847f653a1767773b5ddac71e30400f49 SHA-256: 7b8d71b9e69cc70b67d132bbc7c449d1f9aeae0e58bd77791ec117e25b34faa3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords like 'sociology upsc books pdf' and references to wkhtmltopdf, indicating a lure to attract users searching for specific content.

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sociology+upsc+books+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e01b42269ad3d91759e6c406db3423df/20338946249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c1216121d---61666105666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087dba40747d---76843774280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/wijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61da6a93fa81b53f914ee117a2d80e3c/mekegafebuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwasuroloketevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea7a762c8e49084ad8424035c4ebdbd2/bufurilididezepubafizurid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e5af5c4feb9af1089b336b32c604c74/10946133036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uob0ckjf2j2j9it4hej5mtbd3l/35963871452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f547d3ccfc8e96aee6a452a84e3f08d/vufexoxawatujonem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/veon7jk5kap16ujpuer521gsr3/tozopatijuvulaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/lisedukojatapabax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/burapolaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/noxefebasevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48d044da1ae040e9b647f179b3d8e2d2/73102073756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9060a0fb4---semaxivevexanudumuvadub.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_off00010c19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C19 5428 bytes
SHA-256: f01f2c651050167a9e3f901c2d66fd194cac82168480645f22c412bb118ce44b
font_01_sfnt_off00011eaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EAF 10916 bytes
SHA-256: c0a2a5906dbce711938fb78485e8b8ef502cf2c697cf937c901514d13b93c409