Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ba50bc78c9b4db2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-07-18 23:01:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6c54e0829e127a7c0547d534e3f69eb7 SHA-1: 16fcee1a17ff1a30d9ea71fac555010e721b7022 SHA-256: 7ba50bc78c9b4db261c7c0e74a770c4cc98e0c147886ca2325b3cec2b128198c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links suggests the primary purpose is to lure victims to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e437ce4ffe1---suxisesazexepizire.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/foruguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5lovestartw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/numagopaxelimuzaxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/mazanape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolonauticofavignana.it/userfiles/files/vowugepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778fa870df4---84509251936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a034a1c420---1479656569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaidientu.com/images/file/zowemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hissekurban.com/resimler/files/24041514573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d619f11f3e0---26405106154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d31f21424---foleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfcd0f4a4a0c04a684d8bc7481d1660d/22483557666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/5547739905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c146a1904e---kejovidifalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3a4b3d58f9---wuxotutogij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/zebofonosajufipidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3235922164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/54726221259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4219250cc81a18fbbef39cf3ff5c73a5/82194529764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4ef19942955395bc83684028313a5d3/tadovagisokigabif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04a356dcb2bccaa024d4e3c78d9facab/51976949846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sfeerweter.nl/userfiles/files/29943128920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/bavivefupobimodinan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kg4qqg8nl7oav7dg98g6cs0g11/wijulival.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=what+kind+of+cheese+do+rats+likePDF 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_off0000f276.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF276 16632 bytes
SHA-256: e896d0c9c6509c93731645541c0836c845742b74f7fde2e8ff5e94baacc6a6a0
font_01_sfnt_off00010a07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A07 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12219 17392 bytes
SHA-256: ca284971282b6a94da689657621977004b837cc5550bc45aecd1eed4adebbddf
font_03_sfnt_off00014f5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F5D 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 5348ac359ab92b6d3b5ecc32cecb4081f2509864adb1e150786fda83a5950f02