Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7e1487f9cfdf20c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:48:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d34260f053c037413253935442f4ad46 SHA-1: 6461583aaf11b34c3b9b4dda40dccdc29cbf74e8 SHA-256: b7e1487f9cfdf20c5768b4f1ea28e6fd6c06a779e8dce364c8a851b5ffc88fe5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to a link farm hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=recurso+de+inconformidad+imss+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/79360598337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16b4e230d94810692b123853d20314fb/palude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/82649736364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd7b5745a1e9b94ac2d5df2e5270cb83/mudesuvorozoxabunax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcde.kr/userfiles/file/28472774945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begues.mobi/userfiles/file/kasafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bbeedb0bc8---94596543031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745f677c8ec---modazefibadatunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609415ccd7a35---19202146016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a4c6e86ba9648edaa052ef23e058d99/53744798472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://postelezmasivu-brno.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/punapuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1456385e99---jabelidifukejijupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chroscina.com/userfiles/file/dusiborudilopafonopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/1868937346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdmsig2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76969077037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billagelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kaxajixapawudijezofave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/kadepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincesorvarshop.hu/editor_up/bujolamelez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116d41b5a9aa---ragetevujevidejidonituson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161170f09bead5---44513586917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelexpert.ro/uploads/files/89599757175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d13e9babc0---tadomidovufidekanavew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.com/file/zabuviwanupujuwiw.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_off0001080f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1080F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012021.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12021 19056 bytes
SHA-256: baf4c8b3d1296c2f3e4697d95f65b6c5a0054f18e36a11ae9ab8c4553e1fa57a
font_02_sfnt_off00014ff8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FF8 10784 bytes
SHA-256: d27be536efadae6febf268a7ec34f17d3e161c3fe0cc5e284b4f5ac55de49ca0