Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7b40061de4f6fb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

148.5 KB Created: 2021-06-24 11:07:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3c601d29ada5523d1d2bd245c9ce537f SHA-1: a20b4cf933ab10d856b389efcc70bfdc0f579171 SHA-256: e7b40061de4f6fb3d4105c8708cb0ddf99aea837f7a558a35ab79bcf23be2087
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a technical manual, which is likely a pretext to disguise the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9j76c0g246rm2fj9l4kn7lpbs/fojulazumulukomuwidupi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/xaninokidakunejub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb831de80967755c9ba13589341c9f77/26712550276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/837c0b0fd5e4bafab99cb6d35f92be1f/42097958037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b240f8053ac---94565852833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/519701ca5a0b8692539419e02775aeb6/40445140242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/42132368912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/19429133455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soliangco.com/contents//files/38696347187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16cddad1a6---kupamoxofiwotaguni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad2d5284ecf---63124508117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f33f29df32---40920141227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/82711066878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savaksangida.com/resimler/files/89110012728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49f6058e1d6ae40796466f0b793bd78b/databowusekow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.foundationofhope.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc4ff7aee4---79758610594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raiders71.com/clients/4/41/4134020f2f298c111575624a380fabfc/File/didisotaxiwugirodefuxiret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=hvac+duct+leakage+test+manualPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00020545.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20545 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 225d6c6807117aa16df55175e2d0b8aceda086bf56ffbed2e330820942fc0640
font_01_sfnt_off00021712.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21712 13468 bytes
SHA-256: 7a24f003d11243da9dc62aab3cf6ed00be5d575246c868251b0892df6b41f259