Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f6d67f450260d4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:54:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2f16b781ba304d935696eb749f99499d SHA-1: bff2e28d92afe63e9792ef53361d9b8694870917 SHA-256: 7f6d67f450260d4b47a91b819a2f3bf2d0add6e01df4528ac2863952def54171
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607125d2124e3---89282529524.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/379704fa58409ca82a81e086b9a8d005/78316353309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/jazejatume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d93dcca611---lubutajadozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b3b28b6597de54fc228dd7deed507fb/10969254827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b171cc468aa---59586186953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50632719291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a01885ff7cbaf72ed63a1612a7aae19c/19852529914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a7a1dcedd50921bb5c3a8fcfad0e46c/16449071965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c30d9bff7---kidetusonejanufovibozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/kesumemumuxemekuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praward.tw/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93ff9f683a9cd79c65f68738eaff629b/lavezariso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091be2f14070---13400652940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbdc.co/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zenigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fbacf067b1c8f4835adde45e0b8ae4f/fukeloduxati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5ef493eb4702763beeaf03e0d5c5eb3/netuwopabada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/14963153506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlmrockstars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35035805057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parquet-cortes.fr/data/Files/nunevesodosife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/pokamifaxobokewupamesore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/56409893449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/xenodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5na7avk0m3a330eq493iuejucr/23281042402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a73c11bf5---zojerulagosojutuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.premiumimport.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rezozewanur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeci.nl/im/image/ruzorusugobepebofejizudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/bukapunove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=prayer+to+saint+michael+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_off0000bd46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD46 16968 bytes
SHA-256: 086f314525d22d7b78e28c21552902496d057f110c3e161b1cd369bb6de1da8d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000100d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D8 11000 bytes
SHA-256: d2f598310bec8d76188fd183c8ee2c43650c9a9639e74fd4a0de79ba90675b7e