Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e3b6a57847dc9f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.9 KB Created: 2021-06-19 02:16:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ab76857d7c57cd983934f8728ef525e6 SHA-1: 2e3e0efdca1f7d7cb61d9228d7ce2195dfd8bc24 SHA-256: 7e3b6a57847dc9f30e5b8779e5ed5ef25ea35c0d5e192505d7420fc558a8a997
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised upload storage further supports this malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d8271694e808b0e3084edcb4893e268/20300103508.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57b5814d1cf24e9a6f616ff817f35abf/bobidujoridamokaturid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbikese.hu/files/file/33526943900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.comarticle_ressources/file/87518986891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7e7843cf9---lisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/japufadebalodukigiwexige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k2n4uo9ilt1oc43elkbfsbtpjn/lujimukivufelotik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lvma0297smmoafcdhgpfl72qc6/82955908154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fdf287bf34---jomewobamegisozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0404261d28---vuvotogixafumilib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080157e3a5e1---78025015496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607890ec39ec2---1473083090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/jivitamapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e07d49d77---volire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2651ecf2a5---zimuxubimimowojuxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cff8cb46b371e00ccc53014c2e184e6c/zofazodedekezixosigorek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalparkhotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33840459919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68a89dba252a74153e5d30cb6292c790/97019015976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advicetao.eu/pictures/file/tiwixowuximatuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=sodium+sulphate+msds+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bca9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCA9 5288 bytes
SHA-256: 907e04fd7e27df5437a30dd50f907118695a4d89177869ed165a5adfb5848d48
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE84 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 252355b2589eba4d6417e86a0f03b10c59aaa05061d1a5bd4c147d607ec43f66