Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fe841fb2b1128d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 18:54:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 78a26db077517149714bc00b484fb87f SHA-1: 0dd131ce5e63a0d04898b104a26ab1fa34976495 SHA-256: 7fe841fb2b1128d3511407e041e0c7e644e75a6802e1f36785eddd473d433c8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The presence of these links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=identity+prop+of+addition PDF link annotation
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079459dd0fbb---44630209833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v61bcgengm1itjoeut0qb9n107/82524274502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864718c8e4a---8175049087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cae941281d---xuxejixow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe8132dde1---tuboxukedeletibuguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ea0a6c7076e18e57e621e09cc564f26/45438519271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5ab5e77144e3b59364ea7a5d49a3df4/83964826419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.monts.sk/upload_images/file/7591729555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d11661b91c---24603153393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colormotion.cz/UserFiles/file/ruzijufivofuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/mavinukavuvitovib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607767c8e032d---66349402023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e0609e7b2---387944250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3bd583d45---91438798381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/18767541930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089b3020c28a---74544508603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/tefida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a574992a3e---sivaresaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccu1l0nnpmajnpt2qon7l3shdp/wuketirisigarofavowafip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3b5ba7f514ee3b4061500d66891fe09/dodegopogoxuxubowurem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0796452c06e308c203817ee3f0d3032/vevozisegonamate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micro-churches.net/uploads/file/tedebixisavetiwusonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/295d7f6a9459588fc0bfb2a9feecebb9/fawubefegoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9353d6d65---zigapux.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_off0000dcf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f504.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF504 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 276bcd50cb390883de59683bc7255b2a4b92d32e29b8010b62f60f6156ab1e7d
font_02_sfnt_off000122cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122CD 10344 bytes
SHA-256: eb0a010d91dc36d3839d5bf22ea1e9d843893c266a057757092a264cd40a568c