Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bbd944f2fa7025d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-08 02:58:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d5d9f22610124be50a9a30fb5f0c0cf3 SHA-1: a20a2e745668b05dd300d3d1a56c0730c0666d3d SHA-256: 7bbd944f2fa7025d0f597f9bb53c03039527ef0b8de3d490c7705173cce3bc0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload locations and disposable hosting sites. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites, leveraging a compromised CMS upload mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3+types+of+conjunction
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58e7947319---xewat.pdf
    • http://e-sportis.com/images/upload/pubodejulagizefifosuzewe.pdf
    • http://dr-onesrl.com/userfiles/files/donutag.pdf
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3110243f7edd970664e12e738b5dddc/61670818431.pdf
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/kopuk.pdf
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/dobabavuxamikowoje.pdf
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/nubapivadepuvig.pdf
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/lewekurogitabaweler.pdf
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acc191ba121450dee6ef92b82d814b42/18248520837.pdf
    • http://motorlustor.net/userfiles/file/rujaxapomezedibe.pdf
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b152afd20df3067a3a7dca6806fb4c92/57245968277.pdf
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3o9drs0ha9kq2r6rpjfbpl0mc/tovowemaxoxumisar.pdf
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/18422547722.pdf
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/rawinoto.pdf
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/54281920649.pdf
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b19e6ccb4a679801dd0f1475e0083c2/70720442762.pdf
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabc708450a---tajusesipajasaxes.pdf
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/62689344153.pdf
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc11fc8a23e31e35651b6bdbbb5614bd/fowukelizorowarekasi.pdf
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb90eda422---22949375669.pdf
    • http://richfieldhighschool1969.com/clients/868116/File/xibiligelofilexamem.pdf
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa242e0a5f---82914970981.pdf
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/sewudatanomum.pdf
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3lj5k33s0vbbmnma0cfn1gvem6/29775585810.pdf
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609abcf500e9e---26218433800.pdf
    • 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_off0000ed09.bin
ab1b56e1479fdda822772c87c294c47cce5b11dc69ca558c8294f6b682983236
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED09 10584 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001055d.bin
90c5597abda98c2b06ff65ba053ccfe1a0de4e30071371bc7719fc66bb8575a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1055D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000130d7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130D7 16792 bytes