Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e508667db63cc86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:37:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bfbed6d1531b3b2a1b622510da679353 SHA-1: 1360517b8fcca9b10dadd113cafc9193d2579976 SHA-256: 7e508667db63cc8676e988bc3bf348af54225cec9d2b7e89b6db3d6b42671f9b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and heuristic firings indicate a strong likelihood of malicious intent, possibly involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities or the delivery of further malicious content via the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 http://nawooelcs.com/upload/userfiles/2021/06/files/210604112655.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kibledergisi.net/resimler/files/pisaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b40456acb3---65243177002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608005903012d---12271503241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwecare.com/usr/userfiles/files/54845255209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocgrafikavukatwebsitesi.demowebsiteleri.com/upload/files/kejelidewivemeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d746584d39bafca3e272b96bf277ccae/96047623413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1trqrg45tu0qhfjbj2ft3kee5i/77892580967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080147b4af00---goxawagedeker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/giturajigaxemaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7491710ff12d8d8a5d6d7438b2213e76/13078942460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41706f3c721d8683be9b56e84cda9db2/devinuzodidepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1b8902756---tebipaxalasijuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/47992687302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df83b3354088296f89ff0b5fb4072eb7/zoleduxigorasazitowijigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10a677ec319bdbdb588a5f4b00dffd46/84602390688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a3c249282b---66874781937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef5ec7e9826fe93af107cecbe5e65bb5/vofomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacituran.com/userfiles/file/5016336087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ae540ca73e---selozitenes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/81733632470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://score1forspencer.com/clients/4/45/4587145e2679cb7673d0e21b436e5c25/File/vituvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s54riedmsodaukousduth56g16/kozolebojubaliliwiwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=perkembangan+politik+di+malaysia+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://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_off0000d1b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9CA 16444 bytes
SHA-256: 41657a83bae2f9230753edeeed9810ad0a7a89de64b5a62c72fd1fa94677d1ed
font_02_sfnt_off000114e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114E9 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 2df7c7562cc50afb53106ccb49331f382b5dea9a101774464d3c596afc37633a