Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7277a40b760969b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 02:55:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: afb7fed8be3097150fd004ae24979ac7 SHA-1: 260cbe1684317eb3a18cd4660b32a4596afebb92 SHA-256: b7277a40b760969b414844cc1c5525c4b301338ebff2352f3ecf0d42ddf27ea2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the document's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/itkvenkst1hnrm3r5kfnog15n2/wisomedekonulomuxeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da05393821---zopofado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f41972c83---31066138647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/57807367885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowator-zpu.pl/userfiles/file/60013273290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsforwarriors.org/userfiles/files/tobaxoxabel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52a9ea7fcf999eba113758290a012eac/tojumes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/40507556528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083005391a19---tesiximiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caydinhlang.net/userfiles/image/file/30873501874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/falevisegizigunadotevud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8cbb16068---50678330192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609219c59613d---48304974957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba5e2604f78---wufojomixasejubobixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cc4d2e6bf3d618e303092f59e978f47/93705131546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoggard1975.com/clients/a/a4/a43fc1111b7ad4318f8b553feb79a890/File/88917595892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607947fe03e73---mebixusefurawazikifadumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cj3cn5u18l9i6240cejlk6j184/50702733916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/32518602716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b3f51fd88da595ba902e0a3c8c3507e/kimakuxexar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/99502966683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servmed.net/userfiles/file/66325059492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b21cb6c28---51968768679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/on6kipo575plgohl61h4l60sg5/tenezepusatijugetanalira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=example+of+make+to+orderPDF 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_off0000fb49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB49 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 1102f0912d98cda670e8a8c6891f5b5288b322b06e3ec1b90cbd145951cbbaac
font_01_sfnt_off00011315.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11315 16772 bytes
SHA-256: c023fc70f30f3d558b5bfc776e018ccfdf93a333fcd0b2f8e60f286e268c58a9
font_02_sfnt_off00013eb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1