Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7cc102c5f5ba5cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-23 09:02:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b6fe29bbf0b3b59d2bf6b571bed93568 SHA-1: 26fdeba227890641d158fa97a209586916e63f53 SHA-256: b7cc102c5f5ba5cdccc8ee02127779fe45bdb4be4b56ff32cc93ea212d184ee5
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is intended to trick users into downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abecf0872a---56338523028.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mama-light.net/business_school/uploads/file/18959891630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayzerfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/08/08e2d5bcffca37c2e1a82d364f4296c6/File/83788914153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codienlanhminhquang.com/upload/files/xubama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ca36dca7a4f5bf744c7f0943e8289c3/jajipixavekixewasomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9cb713b70---91850957085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c21e081ef94c1132ae7719a5c1acde5/53155198484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f281d5cddeb6f919024b8e7b06ffb1df/55088113361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35caob1img69qmacjqhrl2bi51/xanuxobazawinevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villamishkan.com/310renonew/front/images/files/67680310019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakerfamreunion.com/clients/1/13/13be4b03bdabdd3a133c3ee64ed6201b/File/17694524248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elijasprojekts.lv/files/file/15780578727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/musisun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3vo8895q0ad4ugunml1s4gnqs/zalujexilenuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/zitopolebulugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonlittlesun.com/upload/files/32653896954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/25650597294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720c42b0747---31183316049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0uph5hco70161ov800tt2i9b1m/polidesovazifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/retisug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48433274a6ef4c114bfa89d6fcee2898/dodinawijurubusukosuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenvisioninternational.gm/userfiles/file/xixigotazotumedasibito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dfeb33cd4---81788973840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=xender+apk+pc+downloadPDF 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_off0000fafd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001130f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1130F 17340 bytes
SHA-256: 17f10194ae9c6d0e99abf9037058352505e9e1e71599df1a9e29410a2697fc14
font_02_sfnt_off0001406b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1406B 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 7a7a23071b7d91ac66af08800590d270f6b76e70cdd5f6b941bc471fd80a7e3e