Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f82bcb6e347ed7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-24 20:21:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 52e1113a84c7082a5284b1b07b2d30dc SHA-1: 3bd6f1327cd8ab56374ab63ad5ddc680a4daaf13 SHA-256: 7f82bcb6e347ed7da59c7e9cd852b93cfd5cb9ea856f8c372600df2eda9541d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary goal appears to be directing users to malicious content through these embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613357e35bba3---24633368117.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://congnghiepxd204.vn/upload/files/38004865122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsevolozhsk.mebel18.com/uploads/files/wasapivenenikapurotoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszemotyle.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/sinotitazedikunasofos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saringkarnwood.com/UserFiles/file/lasoruxukimenokopoxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemonova.com/FCKeditor/file/gudarelazupidezoneruvowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzl-pro.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/zimijelemofejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614837fd4a8b6---kibopano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/1241135412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redeyeldn.com/userfiles/file/nopumofewavobufukolatale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394162286bd---gebagaraminoguzefudusiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylodge-naoshima.com/images/blog/file/fatajisogaxorazeweno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0286869143.com/editor_images/files/fipefeziwitenudejewep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodebiaggi.eu/userfiles/files/70902888992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keitbg.com/images/files/53320427390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsctda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210906_044729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413140930f8---gefozorutesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polishedskincare.com/minaret/uploads/file/74257004558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renewone.de/files/21324004187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restavratorstvo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuwasakepuzesigofewiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bd3d6b56e9f8959c58d5cdffda0fcdf/ranipagotuwedimiginipuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duragloss.pl/userfiles/file/44954650216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/78265812767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvu12h.net/userfiles/file/surilezesixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirai-kankyo.com/userfiles/files/vixamukegelarajepelinevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=android+background+eraserPDF 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_off0000b6fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6FE 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 3b6219465f534e507c1f35a5ff56d51b2c699e2cebe8c7c390161a46caad7378
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF7E 17360 bytes
SHA-256: fa77735b2411140e973379822d3d03efa754dd11ce1e22059c08820dc9d81aad
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1