Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f84b88676321aa8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:46:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 7b344055a65b1f626f5b02ac7f0285d7 SHA-1: f4ce1d0fced4aeaae4d5667787d9f9ca375334a4 SHA-256: 7f84b88676321aa897aa1d20fe6c22e3a8997a02a2e153df13e368f9f35e5564
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious destinations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload is being distributed via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cv+format+for+teaching+in+pakistan+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/nexuposadux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e13380cd9d---67172657938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/file/xibopipas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myapartment.de/web/editor/files/97917121177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.companyforte.com/imagenes/editor/file/61088378544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleuriste79.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pijesolalasesigavanipazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masterref.ru/editorfiles/file/wopejiviru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbcd3d1bb8c---bigirunabexupuwazunesepip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hattshopping.com/admin/assets/images/ckfiles/kupanofedez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8de96e8aca700b32568758f20179a2b0/nuporosaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.winsum.frl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45075447877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalcenterhotels.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/dopovimoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b1269b7d8a6e8180ecc482312dc6696/gixifolafanej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tl-systems.hu/files/files/wilokodalapivisur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonestudio.pl/files/upload/file/tuwezemamobol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f96b80cd8167a52d7942bee61035da9/jobagumekapedavak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaeb4c4e50166b906d0f5a5715c2a909/74215522095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e13d642ef56---87219120998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa9eabd0d5---dudeworapazike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.com/userfiles/file/gofukujex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziszolg.hu/editor_up/gadijibelarewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arlingtonhigh1960.com/clients/881088/File/82337924478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungquanghieu.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/27303161822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/35298734645.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_off0000df4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF4A 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 0d4bf863582c04bca00e7d24d88e091dae746fbe661007ce6071602067401552
font_01_sfnt_off0000f940.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF940 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011152.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11152 17052 bytes
SHA-256: e1478706258afd7aa1ac344957103233673ba52ce0667dfb85e72a2311f5231d