Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7eb6176baeb1710a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 04:37:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1786b90675f037e0c1bc5d7e9a93578c SHA-1: dad9131de1c8cfb87a77e330f11b414b27e7140f SHA-256: 7eb6176baeb1710a25c5a038b4a77ff6c13573d6b56881ec3fb1acbb30885ea6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79d55c2868---97009848780.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9597844df3cd45f2a673594056b32982/28093952338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb6204aca869d75413ab109118851e95/tafitorifesegonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakadentalcare.com/contents//files/dinorudibitepud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c497c822a26---latagosejosijafapase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l122ljonjng58h0qp2fg8ifjrk/wetuxexozarovik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/dodexafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pomubajomuzur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/9863715840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/35731198286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/refisowowakuwarasix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/92079753201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e6741cc953---jilaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impeka.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/81420998137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd45a52f54---45351539170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcresthigh1971.com/clients/9/9f/9fbf9047a6869172a982db6f42f05a9a/File/88794384445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/54475805761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e244955a13---12225584674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcremich.lu/files/files/walefojuleko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2f2ee72f63---bevijiviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/95322440643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/pefisaxibekete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/50442102028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexsrmenchion.com/clients/b/bf/bf5401b25fe3457642f5a6f1150d5537/File/kifexezamofoxivaxijedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=give+an+example+of+an+arithmetic+sequencePDF 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_off0000e845.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE845 17584 bytes
SHA-256: c9dd7702433c468ba51df9d7b969b72c6176cd076c4ff2a93cae4636f7f2428d
font_01_sfnt_off0001167d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1167D 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 497fff3a34fea326aea4564d3be0db006bf08ec867ceb7b2c530d4a5a34ec1cf
font_02_sfnt_off0001308e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1308E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1