Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7f63da21627cdce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 18:11:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 41c879ec1bd556309105535f4566c50e SHA-1: bb8a4abc8062c85bee0517415116fb65aff2e912 SHA-256: b7f63da21627cdcef385c9c90f1b38f4a4a29f825dec4de43794449cc84ff8ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host and distribute malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attack pattern involving the distribution of further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86fca120ee---perovu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/fujapiximekojunobos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f7c0f95ca2---49694189722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17c3c2bfe1499b5b02643a89c6d5680e/xebebotunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65a739edc8f52065e9a0e33f57356fc0/95012283850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/flec2u57kqtbittr01ci027n9f/38263740926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qq1isfgrvlh4pqulelbt74vq40/zapudibarifidegaretukag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fvevoc8kje4aival6sj75im6d8/kulonofet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0a3f3910a---fenusijitivematijij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ff0365812b---poxelopizepuwoxemaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/devorugedogezofabuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f394998ced74925202b7c161d50146a/57023655750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/664ddf1f580fdef738b9af234bb0543a/zawezivalali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70livhu85hq57q2p56tjh7o5bl/82201717819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a6e99a4c8639be7f4e32846f35b97cc/33805590194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/87195530411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nm8s15q2aot3rmn743d3e28vs9/sojepunutipekivorinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rrir9512lpilcekhnrhgvbra7q/92287191362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/622f7cde3845930170556a1fd9058b83/2470831760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb34f9deb65fa3a364532c36ef818f66/33220226917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musiconthebay.org/clients/2/26/269dd5bc96e197da989a8dccc71442af/File/pabefukudidipimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a1359f163---xatipesemilosuzativod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/93088189637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=factors+affecting+trade+unionsPDF 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_off0000eca6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B8 16628 bytes
SHA-256: 6ce8902b7b07dbd800f8e924d6213b68e908e6643aea0e52be658f41be67d462
font_02_sfnt_off00012f30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F30 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 5671c78f7e143eb962dee856548e2a9460b013293f37b9e732e6fcf76830a7ee