Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e91cf1e0dbc380b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:36:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 201244f6b91a436933be3771fe02eae5 SHA-1: 29acb4847d1930ae7a13532325736f34db99b7cc SHA-256: 7e91cf1e0dbc380bd08d821e236e4c6dd02b9c143e2d8ae50ac594400865d485
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Numerous heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links are likely intended to lure users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sample+of+a+good+research+proposal+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f49119f04c252a2a92cb164675b68f92/viradanagajelulojeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/luq2aprda4lpfsbkhpb305iole/88386474726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danies.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96682148530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210704/file/voruxegilutomixuwevujawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff53643638f---8396667360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachtungcompany.com/upload/files/xugubuvizemejiropesafabek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesgo.de/userfiles/file/fofuvikazod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tadimtursu.com/image/files/fegoxuwomajegojunade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081431f00286---72242729906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/pobalipajagev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/14024745913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungvrvklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/84819651575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210603190206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c3e0cabfdbd838e388d24cb595940a0/mijasutolusamitajuzab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/026dda7cc179f73c0473567edcf308aa/fevifadusukiliketuwipej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://australiancaravancentre.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bupugevuzemek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021042919471915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hc6999.com/userfiles/files/86250186235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongthuydotho.vn/upload/files/ropojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50be89fb1d59eaf4b2ee0308b66835d5/gujusogobuvedizila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e351f0add14031e75cf12e4ac881d2a/nexonexofizefoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/xudur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/93888365162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803b27e4b37---83486588293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/295e9695dde6228152d3634ebf90750b/30122894744.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_off0000dfcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFCD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7DF 16980 bytes
SHA-256: f1b76cbda31a7024b60bfb9f69fb0697a0162a3e6acfd05daa8d124491429a04
font_02_sfnt_off0001237e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1237E 10848 bytes
SHA-256: d0c7a1861fb41a4c5db1930ba7a11d28c3962308864e864190f85d50eb5657ec