Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bf825d90388c945…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:29:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 16fe1297dc38b81fd944bea91520354f SHA-1: 56d8ddda5f6075652976a90815d8b6e2603f56a6 SHA-256: 7bf825d90388c945cef0572b84d4c17d9d3da59239e825431b1a861a6ad0c95e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, which serve as a link farm. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to download a payload. The document's structure and numerous external links indicate a phishing attempt designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=matching+shapes+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • http://wilkinsconnection.com/clients/9/94/94ba1e7d864c5c8af3bb481f5f9f31de/File/kovesikilema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b82cd8e25---kubevigixudapewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e18d288107---44628962504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artofsurfing.com/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xurevaketisin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blesk-stroy.ru/userfiles/files/kiwakifojejix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba4bc6c0b8---53217217458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126ef5882527---tanidamofijikori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marjojaspers.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38502514744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uforoi.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/fibalogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a1fb3ed45---57764222174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/38612926200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://am-system.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87070395555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d690198ed7b---88624037496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relans-nn.ru/images/docs/file/21106179919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a8a166287e522abdbb0d536d352696b/42785097447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf55546be9d---89193996525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c740d7f4c7---luxuxepuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cestovni-postylka.eu/userfiles/file/9426651032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/letowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leasebridge.com/CKUPimg/files/29483450864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubkdo.fr/img/pics/files/98756930970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021090809301073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denprokhorov.ru/images/file/gatatakoxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a143e326da7875fce13b30a5428154a/zetip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607838069ab03---xexekomit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e7d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D0 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 39ebcd3785573707ca08f446025d18b44131a38a5508102ecdadb801aec1f555
font_01_sfnt_off000100b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B5 18576 bytes
SHA-256: 60ccc6918164d39db985341867a16131ba40ceb68a555387881852c954ab3a5d
font_02_sfnt_off00013128.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13128 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1