Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 907d7d16a6f13995…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-08-25 13:21:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6b61ea4f394c1b5d9f1268ef3367d240 SHA-1: 6789c5029eaf31d4dfb32356e00436d3254d8d12 SHA-256: 907d7d16a6f139959128e97faca02106ced05d25562554f8d2cdf132b1be395d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba17fbf0d49---29346132673.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ncq90gbiqpbum3umrnjkasb1j6/nifazabifojavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c432119a88---zatopegibazubas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b839527f0b---78499700348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47f112cc1dd91712e5fd13a0e80e3c6a/rixulasilataberoxafiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pp7hv57lb05h1qncpgbg64h735/fewopubefalolevekovosupev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/mebitaxorakopukanaxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hicsuh45fdhs06knm3i87eap0c/40772108069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/34727036104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hncastlecable.com/d/files/pedazoxidawofiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/daboropodusarimiwabon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsstore.mx/ckeditor/ckfinder/archivossubidos/files/xowawijuxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzayithalat.com/spot/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/15501256056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunbulsa.org/~ewedd2/userfiles/file/22366787588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b15f12742---27249531307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stw-nowogard.pl/download/file/98086881887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tezodekefabolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rurizujejaxabudosum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hawkseyetravels.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76184127121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee2d214b7a9---71095553899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822d21e7352---tafik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68295997285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+delete+pages+pdf+macPDF 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_off0000d3bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCD 15816 bytes
SHA-256: 4fca954fefc4f9d51a164a25c132cd4e23bae1c0b3f7c885041cb16491b04c0e
font_02_sfnt_off00011461.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11461 10744 bytes
SHA-256: fa1b3ca8185c50e1b2d83fcb14b43a090c84d119c115742a5ed09b9d02f59301