Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7cba6eba2175fb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 23:58:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5b3f0ca37281824fbb0208d5abc2ce85 SHA-1: a6d900b41dfc0a4b68b218b260f0da4c85d6cc53 SHA-256: b7cba6eba2175fb354371472909e97b3d9ea71d2202ac8a19466a6c18b8ca64d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of embedded JavaScript and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution intent. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://high-keenltd.com/userfiles/file/jebomoforefegu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aquarell.ro/userfiles/file/zixodilax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danburyhighclassof1961.com/clients/b/b4/b42d7d7907ff1a67dd6fd366dd3c6775/File/zafobokaborevupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086140ec01e8---38972115095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757485bd057---56508606063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiinamotors.com/js/upload/files/79526715512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ohj10t464ke75kgg2cf4lm37dv/49646528860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asoriofrio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29520799299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/jexufepegunezuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a215e22774---67065425212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077016824852---xojopuxivejosotexolob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/welizonidorepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntwbearing.com/UserFiles/File/90439018591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vntdc.com/upload/fck/file/17797776815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/29699356913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o7sfuqn6hcvti9l6si2ed294k1/nokemuraxufim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecowaytechnologies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rijozaxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a80159e7cb6---zutilikopokoredumew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tbsva.org/Upload/files/20210712194303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/rajarapozexafasogup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb194d59b47---2225814833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocreta.com/userfiles/files/45149091423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f34edb7adae---vozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=velocity+measurement+devices+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_off0000e885.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE885 18100 bytes
SHA-256: c59e41e759ccdc7a46579258ab11182234d1afdd51b2ef8cb6396e882e5860ac
font_01_sfnt_off000117b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012fca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FCA 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 9c74dce7ca4fe32d60412d7ea51a6ab6e707880e6931c1132feb0f257642bc75