Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7a92936963a6d4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-08-28 14:25:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 62e394b8be427f9ceec21546d5100a13 SHA-1: cee39e6cb727b4765f237451c25204b60adc7ffd SHA-256: b7a92936963a6d4a748679cc6a0c2c1165c8c9e6cb821779ec6efbbe4adfdf3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malware or submitting sensitive information. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the presence of many external links to potentially compromised CMS upload directories strongly indicates a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7e1ee7de7a5ba0a5800dd4734d7e87f/20132280901.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zhihepvb.com/upload/ckimg/files/202108221047037832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zl369.net/userfiles/file/garufodakuwinugudinugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608605b3b162b---wasebefizutuveligufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714cfd63779---8205953660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a38852844---zexiduxuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/laxepofugamidasasidufito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01305c5f8cebbdfefc25d00e25fc400a/49055482667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f59b75ff54---38513775795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hlu749gr8iknhano2d0bq7fu5s/98530066756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821f76ac281---30468551531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalnetworks.de/www.galabau-poscher.de/main/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59697524099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/15944791415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroi-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/63528285836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/49365773398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37c51097136d646fc8deff517f5e7e75/jamudaranafemoxujol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ark-mr.com/data/home/qxu2063190031/htdocs/uploadfile/files/79471659125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f566f619bd9a5a97e6aaecd0d9109f45/xofijifekafotiropuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livredart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xokutubesinusapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/46762916445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miaousland.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88548478611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bc3b374ad08c9baba07c44da23ca5c4/lefojizifesutogaxomofukix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deeringbayrealestate.com/userfiles/files/rebuzuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-etalon.ru/upload/files/39284552610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8fb4db1ade---83952655836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=java+swing+to+webPDF 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_off0000e41d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE41D 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 7ef588d98fd167500d2d9d43708d4d83688f900e0a87afef937e756f0098b47c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF2 18728 bytes
SHA-256: c5e7a4965a8aedef3b86a314a3fc5f5c4ed632ad5be6b5c81d6fd34245f959ac
font_02_sfnt_off00012d95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1