Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bb88f54df9a3dd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-16 07:32:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 165b57bdd4b68be8a10cd23a9830fb32 SHA-1: a1113e541b1fa3011b34e00f6332f81617a810b9 SHA-256: 7bb88f54df9a3dd8e9b0edee33f826ebf932dd3f182f870bd2c07069b546ccde
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to websites utilizing compromised CMS upload functionalities, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210529_125014.pdf
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b30a51107---29576847407.pdf
    • https://nutstudio.it/userfiles/file/pomegojoxuropamutalamin.pdf
    • http://vivatbacchus.hu/files/file/82797045454.pdf
    • https://tailormade-sales-marketing.com/userfiles/file/misiwamagozatibatabu.pdf
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f418a4807---nisojupagetiruruxola.pdf
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720afe93902---kodozuridet.pdf
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abdb5dd2e1fc9882522e11228395cedb/39537992113.pdf
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e93028314a---13508250010.pdf
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/10005917739.pdf
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/18472322315.pdf
    • https://tourgardan.com/basefile/tourgardancom/files/sasepesufazukomuworif.pdf
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e9f3268e20182dafe7d11e6bd4048d2/gonexas.pdf
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/12537520093.pdf
    • http://se-ty.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/86158364424.pdf
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e67f8d4cf---limoto.pdf
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/29995020034.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7qkf0jgj2s4dvsel8d90bhev4/50635349710.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb83e10630---41016768528.pdf
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/53312535051.pdf
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oomctt420981focck2clak01h0/xakeba.pdf
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/97875962288.pdf
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095726c37125---30301200505.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=paragraph+about+advantages+and+disadvantages+of+social+media
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ead2.bin
8b2e5427134a957c7c1b2f3bc063c59f817f8864e5eae961549896b7be62c6a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD2 16540 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011617.bin
25fbd973a5ee2026cd2c0d38ff79feec633b6021c280dcdc658c3d59e99694e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11617 11376 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001304d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1304D 16792 bytes