Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7e289e76daff8d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-28 08:00:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e4149cd58aa5bf7fbf3199fe047bb1de SHA-1: 3c00433c79bccd81dc032d6882ac899b977fdad0 SHA-256: b7e289e76daff8d3fecbc7043d9c783d6df70a8833b57452c3555ee6654d44b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document structure suggests it's a link farm designed to obscure the final destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8bd5eadee78ff6fce60271e029494da/95694239820.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c4dd3041ecf604fdf095072892c9c59/dazovimumigesalad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/49374337831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fijcqf4377put7ku11op1p9q47/tademonapafuwewutafori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150129_034038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a864255fc63---topafug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eh8e1tjffk06e20j95ftscc252/bivunimikejukexobagesokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ndvnf3eu9jcq23hqr05s26484u/voxowiwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulmenu.com/uploads/files/wibaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b10e2e924---wofedigopesevojiwagudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mstreatmentadvances.com/userfiles/files/wibujosetefego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00971e8ca064b83ee819733a365d125e/31611586673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db30ad8e8e---24443133118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71afa9111ec3a4ca4dbcd18c9d60512d/41870181826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afae4f60863---98980457144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/fomafitubudavuribi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letdentalab.com/img/files/3098435380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohouse-lab.com/userfiles/file/galos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q8h42sp6j6ad3qnv3d2g5jja07/86246126325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35409572013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d8d4a49894f0048d9d69c273588d483/fukifetolivoxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovelyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gotefosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhbachkhoa.info/upload/files/84724171654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb6349bac24---menalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.comuserfiles/file/pasipil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=pruebas+ser+bachiller+2020+costa+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_off0000e9b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101CB 18700 bytes
SHA-256: d3e6316c2e7ad0c9348d65b8cc55580b174123d223ac76dde3be6ef19487e00f
font_02_sfnt_off000131e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131E1 11096 bytes
SHA-256: bb2e294575440c6086b9dd2cac17fd95e0966e955392b2433b08cbf59a98cc75