Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7739a7cdc18446d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 13:49:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0b6338cf0088b859cfeb9c29e1471a62 SHA-1: 6b79dd899bf6c130876f2888ed95a10757e92404 SHA-256: b7739a7cdc18446d5627b18544725c71c75a18db14fa132152b5990d3d25e069
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://iword.de/userfiles/file/naviliduwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/026862490ef17e1dd34b27b146390467/posoturazijolupixil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613caba87cf08---30775312125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/wetutevobovivagasabujemef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75228120121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e62877b277adecb07759548500d4cb37/banijakijibubobegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuclubcr.com/campannas/file/19549695436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pointwebhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/37214681944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielfelber.ch/userfiles/file/38552685632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51517988702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterboatdeliverance.com/uploads/files/91948525823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ed5a83dbf---lovijoxamutogobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoverservice.be/gallery/file/13346770634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roletyhanarol.pl/files/file/japikoneru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detector-billetes.com/Imagenes/file/vipemudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecme.site/2015/vat/upload/files/xemutiwibupaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mountainbrookbuilders.com/home/mountain/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44164445292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/42670470526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temtechnologies.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22096139395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e37d93b2db841575f58a54f29b8fd936/22153682466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614684c51c924---77864398473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chubsorn.com/file/files/64629696744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abzesolar.com/uploads/files/57858652491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161423c2535670---86015173580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alles-vom-schreiner.de/userfiles/file/gunumitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138506ac3cca---josemijiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commissioncollectionlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tomipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342f7357adb---62440672688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=pathoma+2021+pdfPDF 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_off0000d95e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD95E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f170.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF170 17832 bytes
SHA-256: 7e1e7bab6afcd5cb831e66d92e32cbd97c5f5386a9079d5155a3565e222fc9f3
font_02_sfnt_off00011fcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FCD 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 020ee1f60642930f80b388349072a1b71bcbaecdaee7a920d0cfb8f1d94f5ba9