Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7586eff9eec8f9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:15:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 12a6d339c30ae7769e612854be4e016a SHA-1: 8d82d8aff4606c5a2cce93669903c736cf355223 SHA-256: b7586eff9eec8f9c2ccfffd6780db6c3c92b714e026168ed3ededba79017bf3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with known phishing lures.

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=evergreen+landscape+care+%26+tree+services PDF link annotation
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/1885165040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ashleymongolia.mn/uploads/files/46776608479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0c23b95158a0e9b45bfd60db123aea5/31901529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-3/20210603212915678753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c17583308d---72895945178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22d1caf9e7---wubonolitimezewimafefonup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h9emv9o8qrpeiuanjp2uo8d9fj/36279259346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/91259927766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91925efd50---9827095382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949212e2804---92750565200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf5a8ef55d958325300b0847dfaed765/netejotelafebemit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koovappadyscb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88567914896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a34f9804e6c70d077bc2c7dc63d9f40/duwixeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreyaghoshal.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/mubuzuluwezeporuxusijipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b872b08c52f---pisodorewebofagigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://headrepublic.pl/images/files/46639157925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/gozorimobenafafakizajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/mijuvegetudugozaked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f18d96c96acd5b5c0e467eafaea475d8/77943900602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c20803e05---99588035397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c79445ff0---tugotakoxaboluvavexas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/43459413470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/daroporukiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a472cb3e6---vofatufefaxat.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_off0000dfe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE6 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 95335f250747678c19177669f93fe01accdc379d948ad008076e7e2033c4265c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f76a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF76A 17912 bytes
SHA-256: 35ceee8c039eb5f4d076929e82908c0ea086efcf786592a9edb5698a9fc60b7d
font_02_sfnt_off00012602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12602 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1