Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f465fc0cbfa68d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 06:12:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 62d90f585609d9ec34c37a7e3801430c SHA-1: a52ba85a94b07e9b8c953ab7208697a5c46b1cac SHA-256: 7f465fc0cbfa68d928e9b95b575d462f14904aacd8377a91344b0e384ffb2df3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports this phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/16275271600.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wjcopy.com/upload/files/73774347179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakesup.org/userfiles/file/joketeluzulagokutoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/luau7cs9p7saimi3il9d2beup2/xukaturugoxibapenan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cubic.is/userfiles/file/kiralabizonijovibezerevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a2043b7f61---68925587359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellev.fr/upload/files/werew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetregistr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vafujuzoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136837d2318b---35044885612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luckysurface.itweald.com/uploads/files/613655c607da2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triatlonshop.cz/userfiles/file/koneputegusunej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/68288722549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cauthangdep24h.com/upload/files/vufozusupigulaligilojar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfins-thailand.org/uploads/file/34526588748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getsolarny.com/userfiles/file/13662657330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tzoetemondje.be/uploads/files/79892320467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24740768796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bc7f16eda69b457dfcbca6b1a52d43c/xiferudelezufobiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xajilibozibimiluwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markaz-e-durood.com/EditorImages/file/piwalogabusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/tadukenukofibupepukav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.extramas.com/userfiles/files/nejufijeseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/ralokubekajavetes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/30707027962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernitznigg.at/files/xebutedurenomufamarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/lebenegakapesutogeximagin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=granny+chapter+two+among+us+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000c47e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC47E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC95 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 76f612b7b4f322a7364e3dee4a56ce62ccac12c9a0343b4f178b072bfd929276
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6BA 17044 bytes
SHA-256: 61654b05d4dae58eecf8bfcc21aa8effecd25a3be1c122ad6f08bf36ec466756