Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7878c8cc82e8f65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-24 09:22:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: cabde3df3df6f4b7ead8bf6ae2255d39 SHA-1: 6d552c0f08f7ce1c484b028dc229ef3416d7dd85 SHA-256: b7878c8cc82e8f6502ea5612239959388020e75efecbb5fda8c867370b3d7ad2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to external sites. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the phishing or scam lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/75690135338.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f7e374bdb5---nexejoxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161398c4aa1cf4---29499186383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/vosirulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cephedanismani.com/images/pages/file/32223576951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtammatnamviet.vn/upload/files/82822680314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmangroupllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66886241765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otworz-biuro-podrozy.pl/userfiles/file/91011677093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalcenterhotels.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/94633820733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackinthegym.com/uploads/files/202109101324308750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parentini.it/userfiles/files/dazojamerufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/turaluxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aa562327bd---26719711519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagdrevier.hu/upload/images/file/duvedexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulongvungtau.com/media/ftp/file/64082708116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/debesobefekoxesav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e28739b9bc05a34a0cefde1ea9a571a0/fojum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilyxrace.com/userfiles/files/60116036136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lighthousemacau.com/html_upload/file/13745219496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bc-arman.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bimudowesuluxosuwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commsoft.nu/demo/ktb/wsmbilder/files/kesuropo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bi-kiesabbau.de/cmsimple/images/file/zoxodezowuzidalivuzel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=cara+import+preset+lightroom+xmpPDF 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_off0000e073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE073 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 431e5f64a408f6dc9ead722989da7c36f6323412b29068f25e431451aa225e1f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f91f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF91F 17412 bytes
SHA-256: f2ec1b42ec45a369720d2a8840dbc1a0f38b0e4eaa63f929b97d0b8da99fc03a
font_02_sfnt_off00012612.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12612 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1