Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ba366d029f5a576…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 02:31:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6dad9ee5bf3f5238a23182d3719b409f SHA-1: 9da743a61d1870a6124b9d57eed5aadeae1f5e01 SHA-256: 7ba366d029f5a576a0dd6885e7c98e55c9e509269c69e6433d75197dbb0e0df8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, specifically flagging it as a phishing trojan. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://docando.es/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9828932214.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3b00b8a09---kipalebijiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940ea9c2d44---85915863220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbffdc1d494539591910d83d8e3a8b11/jazujosodoribiboja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nbmjm7pr0lrqpagam9fboh4t5/xaturozawuleneravobidusew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608312f7a3f51---87953099777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8kh0gmikoeqltaq5cdbi4un6n4/45323359182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9natlfi5skj0vr9smuk6u1v3gl/28512212732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5357b29142d94253dbd987108c5909f/seneka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/dekurotojolizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/40161180325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/84027149204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissworldbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/39976866647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bqadt66q3eltrl82dqpvf72av0/29471705236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca85a52887---81089265155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/77743253040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/68165119568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbbf3e05437d2d6025733541383d0672/dafiwotebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp3siemianowice.pl/userFiles/files/mumeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085179473bc9---tagototokibimap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709e6b03a2b---nigaxipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socohoteldanang.com/uploads/image/files/88811141077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867b9caaea0---wigilup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbvtq4svh1tugtt9a4ritojhp5/94815977495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=music+download+mp3+mp4PDF 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_off0000eee8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE8 17888 bytes
SHA-256: cab541636189e4e54120aa2ba76a748f60468bb5067b8343b19eedf8f9b00394
font_01_sfnt_off00011d8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D8F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000135a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135A6 10772 bytes
SHA-256: dc861d2cd15c9f0dfa234c80f9d57e43264bf81d98aa3dabef44e35841d7f57a