Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b95416c55abd99c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-07-24 03:49:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2122cb644816c6100feb6b106474b616 SHA-1: e3a5bf2d9232e48924f51927a98371990f394e9b SHA-256: 7b95416c55abd99c069a333453c8a19d8bd0a69d8dcb23bce741145cd77d3626
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites hosted on disposable domains. The presence of numerous links, many pointing to WordPress upload directories, suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qe7q2pcbrq58hc86l1lm0pe64i/29088234301.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foweramowumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haus-st-otmar.ch/userfiles/files/palixuwovabilet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c6980cec50471596017035df8eb9146/85707142615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paroissedementon.fr/upload/files/laxadosapojawasizof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nomorcantikjoss.com/file/fijilifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a6eeace1f2ea02e4c8841ae44278611/vixufudexug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210716041004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/bobosurapegaxolufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efb9ka4tin0ucaf83nrvon35id/zuxazomuzewegoxusadufupeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.foundationofhope.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8efcd6563---dogusumalijubigitesukosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b333a4980---83681014462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/kapejekugarinosefar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4b694cd46---68664886828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/mudupudodapeduwitum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/guguwojorikedirakivaxeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/nopavuniwurajomigapam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shannonlakeestates.org/fck_images/file/70759533150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/20215231856429968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saam.vn/images/content/file/73696459967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stihoplet.by/upload/editor/files/damigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ec5b911626---93263348363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents//files/tarelofumapasorutulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/69045443306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+meet+and+confer+lawPDF 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_off0000fc51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC51 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 9923181b59e94355bee6689cd8dfc8d96eac2a4b75a8ba8fbc2a8a0785560ad3
font_01_sfnt_off00011523.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11523 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D35 17896 bytes
SHA-256: 11938628bf82644eb421e853926869302d6396b9a0da901d1ecaf0cc97a04233