Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7a0298adbc23cb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:46:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f89c443a1ffd01cc15683e70aa105abe SHA-1: 09edc0502b18f05765e7553f9c2d22e607412c77 SHA-256: b7a0298adbc23cb693358730a1301988b44b19de3d95a864fb1cf5231f1a71a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious or SEO-manipulated content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ade5752724e4d70755881d8dd4da3e5e/53155566337.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caa67ddac1393f3c61032d7f59a4d9de/rodizosub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icnj.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vofosetuvexoguredefagavid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aed7aed4e45---juroko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59bcca5a25---25345365067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profm.hu/files/file/dibekozesamow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavlasin.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o485eaj0dodsmoa3cjssc2ubp6/kurinapuwigiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8238valusf64ctks1qkp0j463/25735372982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssuk3ne7bfn9aubo5d7h8a6k13/74684389704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gidupetojosubupejebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f716c99c709---95890342068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenzoum.org/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52743170826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/10160101862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs//files/bokoluxokobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe3fdd0c63---17663088921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/202167056217258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzionradvanice.cz/res/file/28193938860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a238d1d6b15---perokonenefepugudiwozoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n48cn446k5iok8s59mg1c8q1go/30106526506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ash-graphy.com/userfiles/file/53717978389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608916ebe6f2d---54017402851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/gajefuremebemumodifajujil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118d0f3eee32---mewag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/bugififasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34sgfh0ovkhr12a7nur45krj81/97296018156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe25459b34---86695779177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=electronic+packaging+materials+and+their+properties+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_off0000e8b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B4 17988 bytes
SHA-256: 3b824e8b26b24f418d0274cef1f2f5dc72540686edfbcf26e50c8686ae6f0409
font_01_sfnt_off000116cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EE4 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 5a80a5795e4ea1ff0c2d04be598157b491e4e4b0541e76c9e5bdb60437ca56d3