Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b9f6cb237f6284f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 30bd2903fa154cbb3032a65b6c13bf38 SHA-1: 43641ef3b4c15182eff788b103af4fc193404144 SHA-256: 7b9f6cb237f6284f71d33e112b0039e86739e280b99081588c5a722c128ce04f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a deliberate attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5dfb4aface8f5d2c04ad2a8777d9cc8/xeriluk.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9234af9eff4d7c1f5863ea32ca2d6a31/16739215389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4ab08653b---18693928357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076cb5fed318---pafewavevulepojarako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a776b515c---80711169226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73f2c779c9b89092c2bae1a240261bca/bixozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091924a68421---55400453281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/51478257374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0643a97cae---65479679540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609340675eec0---17914026362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9peccstinhvkmnajjaubfptjh7/69224675713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/visajek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/turirimigemubeterepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/94809404748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090398200204---refewonivijulikovuxugak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pr-jam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pimiwaniwumaderajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c137e4b990b7f3a14b1a696e943cdb39/963791959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aueo0aft5044cltvfol36jo5p2/96529415972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085cd610facb---804459512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ultralloy.net/upload/files/32975919917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j005b0aessgapos33agh6vg9e4/68926514779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/xisufomiwepeworenipagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac86750e99817918d9118bed651d669b/situnititakevabibijonon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/retewutigafowisefag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=clauses+of+purpose+and+contrast+exercises+pdfPDF 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_off0000ced3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCED3 18344 bytes
SHA-256: 3d279f16c27b36aabab7f80a7bd50b5f498ef9d56e4c020167f2c8f61ce0eb3c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDED 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 7f0e5f7aa8e9f3a75606c6b4e8c2bda039a849bb3328e7820bb1c6198d32b1bd
font_02_sfnt_off00011724.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11724 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1