Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7f44dc7d622091e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:23:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5eafb57adbcf00df2ffd47b0326cb441 SHA-1: 1bd7fe4627b71fdaf0c1786d2aaaa23b91816fab SHA-256: b7f44dc7d622091e07d23cc6f4b1dd0dc35e5a7077cb41707e7d5345991e71e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised websites or disposable domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's not intended for human consumption but rather to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=abbottabad+commission+report+al+jazeera+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://it-hair.com/userfiles/lawowakexibumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95f1f62a01---poxusufilebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrominicabs.com/survey/userfiles/files/98402132353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jessie.vn/images/ckeditor/files/51347363084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ebc8a137c---kajepabatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7500cd75c---17236674023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc452f082c8---9098285825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/84027221332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecandrychow.pl/Image/files/mekoseporotexawilivozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah168.com/contents//files/sodutunobiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiosushi.com/uploads/files/37844296795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f2c37c76bd3a09581b0f7539885e8c6/45909565760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biatlonbreza.sk/editorfiles/files/96948756302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebc1d2b52c---kizonexogubisofux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/powovirolujulusulotezape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f93362547---gasamowum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e422a9d5eebb0cf1b6cd9151d350dc7/sixenodepilepabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079cd824fbf4---fudixepafudejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2728c2ff14aa6de7698f86879a27ea8f/90196332742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaluzipro.ru/public/userfiles/file/godumetofopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/91621611481.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_off0000f837.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF837 18724 bytes
SHA-256: d3cfe3ff47205bb576b185c41486e32607a39951d76f7c296e50b7eae06f74c4
font_01_sfnt_off00012844.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12844 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001405b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1405B 11092 bytes
SHA-256: fec8e337aefed43c044f8a958b355830c33e621fbe82f6481128e31f9ccdd597

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