Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e4fe91f43cfcc14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 20:47:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b2d671617d798a8b7c7f7a3a59bd5d4f SHA-1: be7ec2a267325650cf6f7d80cbd1fbaa3c62a20f SHA-256: 7e4fe91f43cfcc14fad00d86957d9e9e332ec2eaf256851b49c2ac0bcb87ec2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate that this document is designed to host numerous links on potentially untrustworthy or compromised domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf5efdcbaa7---gefobasuramibesise.pdf
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/tepexukilowebe.pdf
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/73796309149.pdf
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b8ce8493d---wumafegimoxubetuzadenu.pdf
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749a683c7a3---gidiwonuzupuvatefef.pdf
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8cd06deb3c606a1a945ef689884d248/20919960888.pdf
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89237c6da4f55255f81a53fd41305f7d/14136640374.pdf
    • http://pantipplaza.com/userfiles/file/zaben.pdf
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/bekujupuwamalu.pdf
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84bed8e160---riverexazetoj.pdf
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/rurivudurim.pdf
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/825db72924757f5802ebae7777c31808/15990019208.pdf
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af0b9dacc3aafa7d45182eccb1d90fee/10914357608.pdf
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/tewelapazob.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/muvesorovewupitosi.pdf
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/telomeze.pdf
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e375d68859d---maxipu.pdf
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5da18bd2d---8303586258.pdf
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rv4d3ge82vsi9ioi1f4hoinpet/wobuzomiboponizemivuko.pdf
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083344bb0e95---xexetijirubelowubivax.pdf
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c52776bc4c93b9d1fbc9265b71e5fdd6/34881085637.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+2+recycle+number
    • 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_off0000ebfc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBFC 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001040e.bin
4bf446decdcb967fefbbe7bb083a2c6004b0520ffd1f3a048b8617e9452a9d63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1040E 17252 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000130e7.bin
12abcd0d1424d130ad5001ea2325c2f1d961a1d4de489ce78bea0b9cdf39a124
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130E7 10844 bytes