Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7225f04911fa92c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 00:20:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b0a82fb04a33eb4fdf14b055ebb7f906 SHA-1: 9cd5f13e1cd706d35f35cd29653d7b963eb1f5b2 SHA-256: e7225f04911fa92cb87989344b360cd79263bd2d6134fa1f18be6147249a3eef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of link farm heuristics and the nature of the URLs suggest this document is designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210605140103513.pdf
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/48987492338.pdf
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hn9e5tv7jomvqld3hb8rdffj02/gulodufodaw.pdf
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b15670da3473373eea925b3b133fa01/9589009479.pdf
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddeeb0b3d5681e4381ceee1e12bcbfa7/wobuz.pdf
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0de586097---wamajutekesagunivubugene.pdf
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcdde2bd088---90016668864.pdf
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4051d3047c---76327908634.pdf
    • https://agenciaboom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5ha1cungovsa6uiq9l5hpdv87/45000904937.pdf
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608539a4b1157---8227400465.pdf
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/37721876262.pdf
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af48a8cadbd86f84f99f573148913f8f/89147482375.pdf
    • http://northstarbaptisttyler.com/clients/a/a4/a4b4c2e389351fb2dee96c3f727c6a57/File/96790086948.pdf
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f34e1a756e---28792213548.pdf
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a5695c349---14765597218.pdf
    • http://xn--h49avwqct32ewe967crscpsaz7d.com/ckupload/files/30377399664.pdf
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb952271328---5984828669.pdf
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4abf28112ffc938858d585a076aba436/46103903864.pdf
    • https://crownprolaw.cn/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/35898508342.pdf
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ed4098f34---97251996751.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd705f1e07---paxum.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=kahoot+hack+win+every+time
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bb6e.bin
55f717c88d507f3c33802fe821582fc591733d50cb19ae509a90922c47fcfd18
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB6E 16120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4ee.bin
e658258c0ee577d3673b01db66faec3a001270d5fe509bc737e20c8271ae8341
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4EE 10628 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd2f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD2F 16792 bytes