Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bc7c82494788c48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-08-19 17:15:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: aa937956a8fcddbd2662d307b9a7012d SHA-1: 9a8abeee10fafe6e33ea9a517cfb74e056a971c0 SHA-256: 7bc7c82494788c485c2b3c590bda081d96b76767e958ded8e91622b10d7c4ea6
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised websites and disposable hosting. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely provides instructions to decrypt a password-protected archive, a common tactic for evading gateway security. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm suggest an attempt to facilitate phishing or malware delivery, aligning with the 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' ClamAV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/046b7bdde186c9e6124f74b5b65639df/88233225453.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c090d21e348---puriwowefeminugorevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gryfarmerskie.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/17776004288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gd08scagb19esj3ork75eeruad/15011775193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nghiencuuykhoa.com/uploads/userfiles/file/migubefukavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infoegrafica.com/userfiles/files/60667151341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/138056636609ca3fe30d62.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3042fe6e5e9ccf2590b1acce3c35b4e/93248216865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/bigamudifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608043931968b---koluma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mlqe2f9836hsl9u3bkunsfcs67/gumusedopatiteremovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608353159bdf7---zagesasapefibawofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o31loh2jl8q7mj9ke9jj0ji472/womewufuripe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/49408814049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/zoxuvikeboko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08e96cfce92cdaadd26a83ea6b857b50/suzabowop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ed6d717e8---50118760783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2201239d451b48c2619ecc587a161dc9/44955880897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vititanon.com/user_img/files/20970248281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/bunawabolanina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourconn.com/userfiles/file/202108070508564018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/rawerufolexodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zovsh.com/Uploadfiles/files/sageno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609abcdd9a519---16064004892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1cbeab052523022cbc860468079ac4c/91647779005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+connect+wireless+keyboard+to+laptopPDF 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_off0000ddfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f611.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF611 10928 bytes
SHA-256: b4e24b3d0203bf8a36158ea1f79661e586e66752da0635851238af0874419ffe
font_02_sfnt_off00010f53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F53 16096 bytes
SHA-256: 693c5d3448a9122d753749c3a9a4388f2f9c4b42b787cc3010c76424fc04a0a0