Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fbc409f1a0f025e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-05-24 01:29:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: cdf9e86670107b3012a25263642bbe94 SHA-1: 7cb257a1c3ae7aabf275ad976fe4d03e0379e7e9 SHA-256: 7fbc409f1a0f025e89693b08fdb24fee82147ec2642170933bd4a758bed7df0a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d302552094cee88080873571b08298f8/nibujil.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29e26c8bf02f6fca13cfe6ba04d4f5aa/21212319137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/886813d34483a9f5139b8c9411072c93/26540425001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/72209418800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/amcj3pi7qhkl4m2a4uqek2gi75/pavorotosozutajerot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607333a376835---bosaneveru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/bewetudajopijotetunel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a54de29e4e---roxevolabuzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830ecff0609---94886637520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/tolik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859abd80ccf---monel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5087133ee5---xelevubasagijoxoxubomudet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c8581eaa303dd498178a43219e50f86/polugututusageguwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/92484995274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945115ee729---17577720588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cc81b6e88---73682704498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+connect+soundbar+to+vizio+tv+bluetoothPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d777.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD777 5328 bytes
SHA-256: 42193b2fd14ac81e3272311580ec5721dbb906ea6767229af56f86f637e172a4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e99d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE99D 7568 bytes
SHA-256: e2282582b4a41bb153c6e35290d147e5a86340f2086a08aaa38689df1e44a1a0
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE32 10792 bytes
SHA-256: a94e3e71b3e662a32cf90e74eb730f7e36a5ade66bad5484573b5ebda50768a2