Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7f4cd0f3394ef27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-30 02:19:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9d874582ceee8d60d2a2e78f733cefde SHA-1: 336d58e70831469e6bf847d22f3910a5371809e2 SHA-256: b7f4cd0f3394ef2762f6ecc98cd79452efa01d30aceb569ac4b3297dd373acac
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 a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links and the overall detection profile strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=between+subject+design+in+psychology PDF link annotation
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf6940c911---vupubisujitukukupado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8tu8tlrlfkk2s8i13uhlhe58bs/ripikebufowefafomaxaguvaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55ca5b7fad0dcdf39b67362dd9470f7b/zetawerolosalilelop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/93225947560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f24b4ceee---31790755824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/wapanaxaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghaija.com/userfiles/file/33806499559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nanvog2etqkh4ksb20jper1bct/38455465479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2979bd9240---3732935373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f56cd411c3a---81247362942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/lanuwomejovifobogij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c913fa54ca---24711376098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8f827133cb---39731159017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rmgoals.com/userfiles/files/52789010879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161027d4f6edcc---xekovokifogedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dla-pracownika.pl/pliki_user/File/buxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/65098167377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p8l0s1g9ha7igghjpo2msegg8e/gunibitovowaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62lb7pdpmdna2vm4g20mat0o16/71628998526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eac7afa835fa46a1bfa5dc5fe0b6dfa9/duvomaronumugonakoxugero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e7c63605bb---bipapanujatafabel.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_off0000fb33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB33 16928 bytes
SHA-256: 2be121ecbfe8649dad49224ab055e950fa6e0b40328660304a08e2b24504785e
font_01_sfnt_off00012744.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12744 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013f5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F5B 11156 bytes
SHA-256: acf22ffa0c55d15f3a14011b27fbc10ecdaf3d9463475b46803ef070ce23c5c0