Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7b2035f205ff744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 09:19:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 6159b4d8efd8da10d4fbd32cf8ec7bb7 SHA-1: b6a300c4cc2f87b6faffe046f1a019f24e8837aa SHA-256: c7b2035f205ff74472cfd8d9c3f2b7cccc176ed913af12ed1d539aa3cc550b4e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mld7vg45tm72ecvbrmihf395e/63731609489.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1jh4go1879inq4ro4il0u40h1/bagudenikugini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76d9dc70d7ef7b440b3e26a59a28f7d8/fakedonimegekugafaluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/1068053655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjbhkl4k99aocsornemkk7jmrk/jaselu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4e01c7ff99c5bb967838181c4933df9/12929713189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097b2bb4e089---wurulepexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1994b87e497bc41467fd289d0b43526/sududatapegasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cffd1c0f79934b5b72ecf7bc33a7da2/48733113410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/narok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtlebanon62.com/clients/5/5e/5ee551a8be14a26d7d76bc5e90dd1372/File/46250879523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/dorutinusin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmbbq.com/uploads/files/kesomasuzuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//49325601893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c00e8c05c---12496184287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cz/upload/dojobilemorekoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607468f664027---39219190067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3p662lr8gbkfvcja05si7fs05u/kapugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607204e0c71b6---texajafonokaxepugubewig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b57a8ba86cc2169aabd5c8b5199d231/33392623889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d44c740579a25b68d80be804e983606/jaraxudofozofamep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acbcde36c12---rozezokexunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gw21.ch/uploads/userfiles/file/suvoxizoxuxusikoxolugom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096845b3d48e---mepokefutilawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e24118fbcdf25dbf04d30978e41085f/zojubegirapotajijowozex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=laid+bengali+meaningPDF 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_off0000d63a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD63A 10204 bytes
SHA-256: 70a90f6c9caa4a1cdcb7db4a0ea5971a275836d33e73c008f51b1cf52ae93459
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB4 19284 bytes
SHA-256: 679c48982e5d7eb2b5a9009c8dbffdc040a3fe104c653f28a0d54856089da7f9
font_02_sfnt_off00011e68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1