Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7eb953d41e212e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:52:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7e691f642537d8cbd29e112f606e5e4b SHA-1: 69b6fabc50f2f80757d7d586bf536ed269978d7a SHA-256: b7eb953d41e212e01448fafc22e4f086d655fe093fb969b054b244ef317d68d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=atomistique+1%C3%A8re+ann%C3%A9e+medecine+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/wobamuwunenexap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-pxl.com/uploads/files/43744880872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.vn/uploads/images/files/subuwetesuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/surir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611398b574e8d---93857832214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/lapibopefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb0985bc3ff---bukerudokamoxopejojafegal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/pojixenawidavifidesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a418b6d7a21---43072128759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/poobth7rs047mo2lvcds9r3l0n/varevibibulevezivaluduki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a92749cbe---3642053450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccichn.vn/data/upload/file/bexoxoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widerbet.pl/userfiles/file/61041766832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjpexport.com/files/42633898767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840979d1a1b---xuvuxakekafegofasopusus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95ec77baa91fefb1a46ab1ba769a2310/vilimusowuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750a88a424c---51343248193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/lilix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvhs1980reunion.com/clients/e/e5/e5e9f74eb83211af097e98bf68d59c4c/File/14362472815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d24cf278df5---22778432176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s0khvu8d6i6clbbmpkd4htegh6/sezawalifog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjpremiers.com/files/wefonixore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/476f1025d85d126a20f42c22986bdd54/tudawidiwapugowonajuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/ferazobu.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_off0000d441.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD441 11324 bytes
SHA-256: e6e0547d3ceaf2768920eb397f9049d7a81d7fa50f53e28fa4ef39fdbe8cc08b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE08 19200 bytes
SHA-256: 45d84c6cdff73f5c2c29d01885eade836cf6dfb488ba3b661fd8673a5fcbf368
font_02_sfnt_off00011f65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1