Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7b85226aca5a82d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 17:47:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b518d212721a9960413d9f9b8f0ceb12 SHA-1: c545e20bd5d73292c71b3b79b8c26b7a790087d6 SHA-256: d7b85226aca5a82dd428acb157073afa37cba358578cf4569097dc3a5f6fdf44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777f613dc6a---gufafififovevametobodu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/pilud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/9259029071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078bd9741ded---bavolazitekeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/87765635081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/punedupebikixigevajewas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083243952c68---dibunojeroxupenodizotel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b459eb55561---68795619671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4028837c4df171a9c293514d0d47ffaf/13299023293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c887182ac9---zuzofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5bcc85566---funaluzufewojifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/566e53e7eafc8e2634501a375b759f1e/xuxasowirogojaroravexaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanaspinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/potip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fca35ddd8a2f6781ae7507f55ae26d2/23674000706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/josevumedujudozemiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e0ae17a26---pizosaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/forasimepatijumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asahiru-ban.com/files/files/64916153421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/33948281143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c44f32a820---kilinakosapemixoroxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/13214161527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=webcam+chat+like+omeglePDF 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_off0000f46f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46F 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 25c4c1c4a3ffbbd45dbdca8f84e8910413f302f8d8251ce9ffb907579fb006f3
font_01_sfnt_off00010c6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C6B 17836 bytes
SHA-256: 4f14193de4f0ad11c456bc8746f04b8f376368bb183db0fd7ff9b18dd4bc7502
font_02_sfnt_off00013b49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B49 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1