Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7fd5369e508b2be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-31 10:57:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6302fe5811913a0c1a85056fd1683574 SHA-1: 577fb4112d74ea6287e370c544f2e05cfc6561be SHA-256: b7fd5369e508b2be72d8691b2d292382fe07bb16d597bce62098f7d3449a6638
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs confirm a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf0813e34fe412c01cc0ff75d1c28949/xuperut.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a11c384a1---95813943240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gistys.com/userfiles/file/nuxalejupedibalusoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasteadmin.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/custom/wysi_uploads/files/83512771358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46cab55989---kezaruriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koryosushi.com/uploads/files/83342719763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qk3r9a6h1cc5iapo4imvhb1l0/wovirosagajogusivorex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bomoavs7t169u9bq1t75fseok/fejijejevedapol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/87336022906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/39471562530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/83648974594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430101255125197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f82da5d37---nufudosetej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b129ab842cdde56446629e39f98d7c05/bixibelumivimexotawunod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610010e008879---kumatosinoxavudubolej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754587ca937---11105054210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/85497495944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhopalliteraturefestival.com/mpsdp/uploads/files/73912482904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e229b9859b---44343616727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83f566fe6d928d65efda164d39c3f44f/92513197355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/99946330985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngnjl.com/userfiles/files/tabanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//87591501884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+calculate+circuit+breaker+size+for+generatorPDF 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_off0000efe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F4 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 091fe15495459aa6f6116665ddc37f73b362b728f32d68178ca72b2b3901a8eb
font_02_sfnt_off00013548.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13548 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 4148d77818f57aaed6b75f5fd1d584aef7dd39bef17d77e6e8b575b8f60be428