Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b9182ca9594c630…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.2 KB Created: 2021-07-05 21:16:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1d164e1b9042ccc13fe8669bbd03cf64 SHA-1: fd71c45a3a980ca612f477d1c5a83729572ccdc7 SHA-256: 7b9182ca9594c630320afd50ae1efc7051ef283bdac2c4def2127b0872e7d94a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning model assigned a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9910

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://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a41fc49b821---73035100984.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6cde3781210c8e9950331dbddd7d887/80735159273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608208fb8fa03---7514399663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b35e1313f53---mugowinojedumiwisixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd7d39382b---kazawexonamijodetivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608175715f7b7---7294622032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb648e7f046---tipinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swiss-ex.com/ritegubiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/vuzevafamuralunedin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbd5ea0617---sedevisenuwoxufifewazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd4fca36d3---kujaputedelijixixurakamab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0635a7f2546c75626a1f21d93b371024/ruvupifazoxepakedodefogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/luoifukbb73qboq7vmj3dhfs6s/79620975075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b206d5841e---41970659370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a291678fc8c---1720048918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesfeesdelhetre.fr/upload/files/54554554949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e892486179d235d377d7dcf243da6448/jasigisisokurukedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehlibeytalimleri.com/resimler/files/90481960823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpeterscbs.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17016572147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s078ia5u8deeka09cfki6vvmqd/3466782099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba5ecd5bad2e4ba2fc47ab5edbacc7bf/95844785375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1dd39132c---77094426194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=black+and+white+version+exclusivesPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011d5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D5D 18080 bytes
SHA-256: 2f5e9dc514f9ab36b755f8292daf1a0d6aec312c99a86d6b67c2f9b30237ea0d
font_01_sfnt_off00014cba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CBA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000164c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x164C7 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 868957779b8b5fe9d89a0dab372c0c92c65627bf7d5c346bb29e8c8cdfb74905
font_03_sfnt_off000177a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x177A0 10968 bytes
SHA-256: b60bb835001f5730ef0e8f696687a72342b78c724e8c27bf0b74b95be2ac944e