Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7c3eba683bcd15c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 08:17:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3ed355cc29261e812bb7d4c40d49ced4 SHA-1: 55c6948b9b3050d2c6b58516652ba8a8177f5c62 SHA-256: b7c3eba683bcd15c0cec968ad5d42b66f7a6e5c24e00efd148c128b2a5fcd807
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs confirm the attack pattern of directing users to potentially malicious external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f40216f68---wimuxopivokipizesakif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tragadsonisurat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79015796405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b6767550c7953329d228a12c704b128/51536324291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b6c053e25---vasukidobilegegolidave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swingdesignhk.com/userfiles/4755149572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharasuwanee.com/sites/default/files/file/24599075629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fc673ac7e---98285880661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/091bc0fb2906e731ed5bf1ea9b0ae733/61264157953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/sowuratugagoduvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/vawaluzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b464bb45147f8e65e0dbe46ca3ddd00/gasoritikogemozuzigepije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/80848219549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/bovovexuxazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713cbe38ea8---95439957454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba4ff84cc6---178311673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guoyangmoju.com/userfiles/files/wuzafejavaruvipav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/zerutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3312e84403273387144e308663f55904/83985684658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7525c1e831---gidufexulowufere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tf3hg1mldjruqbd6soadffklvh/wemekokewobino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa67dd2cd8---gotomusatalejedugoxezabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29554080910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29090c29f6---25390802315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a46f506093d96d7de6aa86917e096e2e/nafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+bed+in+minecraft+mobilePDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a1872f18e---79692222029.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_off00011484.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11484 17832 bytes
SHA-256: 156e42d645e5f2a4e8ed7a27412bd5cc6d46326c41925eb7468e42d8654fecbc
font_01_sfnt_off00014331.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14331 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015b48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B48 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 979e410ec2361a8af39ac43356fdcb31844e8005f1b2853cb3703730238baf91