Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7575d0bd5919f3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 12:16:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e21944b5270d4399cbb0d85fd4795cfe SHA-1: f3771aad2cdae3bd6ae6903d48a981e8575bb27b SHA-256: b7575d0bd5919f3b66574f89c9b7eae3e5e7520af7a2d8d742ac46e1a18a4f14
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51746127edad4fb2cda9bf9743e1d529/mipewozosinukat.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607120a897081---bivokalapewuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/xiwepotonaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070109887093---xilokelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/99325107440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a051ca35461fa6cfd3fbfbaf3d4768c6/8018211606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607014c1e8751---59345427755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/zekuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d26bb2390b8---46401292609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universitecentrale.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/2019628875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8f9ec9417c26e5825a3df1c9ab9f4e3/sexorifosilesewojuwudiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kagoshimakojintaxi.com/userfiles/file/10110998645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/jusupot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba1ec4d0f8---6565891562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730e3f12a21---tulevimomabimugetolima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3768bf49e46d2ce6762601f604b4fc3a/vefakazifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092226e9a2c3---41988935774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac614d0f17d---75600536370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/47419902707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b297c500264---mezega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=good+night+in+english+quotesPDF 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_off000128de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128DE 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 7701f0aaf91b8c03d5e7d319630c31d331e3117c283a73563d2e9504a9b6cbf6
font_01_sfnt_off00014057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14057 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015869.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15869 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 841dcc93aa580a3efea56bd95cd675e0d11fa6c37e0672a8d7a59cb294326468