Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7d3c28e49dfc959…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-18 20:42:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8e8e0b57dfc7e86d9e8a99aa2ce0514f SHA-1: b63ae945afff6f602eaee9cb8b85603f3489fb42 SHA-256: b7d3c28e49dfc9595db8b3947865bfc875f45156d5dd5f90b8ca8fb30a5ee241
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are identified as compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically phishing. The file's structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to lead users to further malicious content hosted on compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8e5f0577f---85883185516.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4e11ccb47eb651fa2a83070baa4700b/27363345183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotop-zamosc.pl/userfiles/file/jojubijuxosunemim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b135ca0b5f9---moresipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/nividu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49200602625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhsclassof63.com/clients/c/c8/c8cc7cee7579ddcd469b669c0eb172d8/File/92556340479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/khmd6h53tct8nnlstkat4624f6/81958777210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dd386eeaf0b2bae3080ddf606fcca87/jikafufopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4121b0781a0fa6382270d8b5b61dc6f8/71637287282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3febecf98807821c4579aae2e5b8b9ff/kosolezapuxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa249dd15ce---sofenixupesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zezoalza.com/ckupload/files/xelibatufidalaloleleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1vt486so2qbjenm4sfmdo74ea/33842068083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c46dfvi8rnpng7eibjn5adf24/81221291565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b23928867e6b5d046f27d63de3c5b426/sasukonawenexogakuxivuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/tamufexujaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://najlepsze-w-polsce.pl/uploads/17042087430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=third+conditional+sentences+examplesPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2479a2fb15708a164b3d50d1ff37bae1/98986996500.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_off0000e3b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBC7 10844 bytes
SHA-256: ed9a66cb441099bb3b1518bd3382009b249bd00686b86876913a3a94535984ab
font_02_sfnt_off0001149a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1149A 17468 bytes
SHA-256: d811545fae0b911f4f573ea5a5d984e85400c4fc5dcd71dd45a35a10c1ad417e