Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7b5728fce0ae580…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-06-10 07:47:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 46597eaba96ee88add0d12ca541f0a2a SHA-1: 47e69de96a226b8c206331ef4109fc40fd1c373f SHA-256: b7b5728fce0ae58008760e6fc65d3eea2a76ae4bd3ba54358ff3ac9e3e719006
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a 'download' button heuristic further supports the malicious intent. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' confirms the malicious nature, indicating the file is likely used to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+ball+fighter+z+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750c9862b83---36538930851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/ronus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99ca74b38e---damanurolezodozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab83759f99---tinowifojuliba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091120823cbb---93430651897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/57054992817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41d8679fb5a5dfaee4cf258588659cfb/sekedawururopapodavoloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4lh89lu6bktlktm7vrfbmjh3po/muroxazafabisavisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/66705322241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4322a1fafc10f9bef7096daa91cb9cb/35205305668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609555e94e70c---21060560157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/ligukazes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/55425464398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a374aa78c6d---71859631027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46dcd7418c22b05665733233bca917c4/52044699707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/taxesizuzejarizajoxodanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000101c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C6 5532 bytes
SHA-256: c482455154cefd605685bf0e826fa1212ec95c57bf3a64aa0111c8d13915232e
font_01_sfnt_off0001146c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1146C 2116 bytes
SHA-256: 991f7ef292b59849fa1804c361c52a6255426db797fbcab3b5d31d1f34ee76c9
font_02_sfnt_off00011e17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E17 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 0f8e6b478fe0c087cb0114d1cbd378e1195cf0fe2c0219052a2c702c6a48233c