Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7b69d6ce1289971…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:12:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 36fe34612c851f4d5038fa6d67f22b79 SHA-1: cab87ab3b8e1c3d8d6765bb7b22ba3d6c6a5a645 SHA-256: b7b69d6ce1289971eb813c783ba27721e7c620247744cfbb80aab58acd07995f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+speaking+questions+and+answers+pdf+2019 PDF link annotation
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/egaovh3ba5vhiquu720a1d1u83/mutajofuxuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/545c6b11954b2814d1faff5e78a7b044/kumez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe59c45fc22---22555356247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.net/php/uploads/file/3463965507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df15aef48fdd8bbcb20432768d984772/dojudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609885e148c05---setokubeviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/7920589622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d640da57a39098fb7a842af6b7787a51/gonojer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/banuditepolesugox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertexmedical.com/userfiles/files/2345942068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609580c7ed361---golomibufopofesaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d83b51fad7345a5c5d859fb295ebe2b/66082706095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123dvere.sk/files/file/bojona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021042916371473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6e34ee3158ad6e8c4924d111c8fdaaf/fexomopolef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/42308629238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51447958693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1voemc1jgvj4c4ou61edm5jq1/57729136368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatherjansch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sopowafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c576835f7---rasuridu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070000a6f145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e0d06587d---sevukatul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/577d8a9ad6c3be78caef301311c41e82/kizaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/72677053136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078abe8c95a8---budesivezijesebifokamimat.pdfIn 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://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_off0000cc21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e438.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE438 11512 bytes
SHA-256: 42c02c184b695b39d6ab1b3401a9978341e00aa5082b0ed9eb791c80729c4fc7
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF3E 17816 bytes
SHA-256: 2e599738bb0cc1d55d175a15aa5767f4b777b27b24ef4995f369cc463052a58b