Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7b966857015cea1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:11:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4e2a334b5435041288b945fc516a5b33 SHA-1: 36463dcadab24f4e214735d5beff3ee879d187e0 SHA-256: c7b966857015cea1b9ab5242ddd01688e923e2d68590d9e2f2c5277323b26a61
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. These links likely serve to distribute malware or facilitate phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b2c5611a7---zimeluj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://e-photo.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45379624492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/49882746498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856d9946969---76202726238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/57084711077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/damizilijonetowufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce932c5203ac2fa7c00db6a2b70c60f7/guxovulizadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2ki7dc5khccmmt2rpu3f4kjr1/2284658174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210704_055617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0qjibbqrbj47rqd3moflcpteo/tatad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac09fe59e3b---74824022064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ippon.lv/uploads/File/6211140705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saintthomasmonrovia.org/clients/a/a7/a774d5b45fc75aba9c6fcf07501e1e58/File/59973523820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e33a7901dd140db034a969a704b7c38/poluvenifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaretti.it/userfiles/files/polaguninavejezavol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petikdaun.com/contents//files/nozerodavuvapateso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/phcst2hv26uip2binh7s667gvu/1355795202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d686ddb421e---75470797097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f16cab5fab---63726844517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2625173b0f563b444480c599d18dc66/31109929531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77438405508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traicaygiasi.com/Images_upload/files/50018651761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/vomijogobelavudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/mojomudisefevolufigivuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://begili.com/uploads/image/files/9387900702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wearefamilypalestine.com/clients/3/3b/3bc38fc23f9ffb54b20226cbd6ad6ce3/File/zonisumewivowovexafusesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/82027905137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=5+words+start+with+tPDF 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_off0000c32e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC32E 16128 bytes
SHA-256: f7aa000c99c8a3d9f42ca858c704cfeb7b2c402a96c749cc8dc138bc7defb97d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010466.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10466 10188 bytes
SHA-256: de9386b0755d75ce0c9a866b059ea8dbffa5573c02bd90d8c67780668d838dcf