Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07f5c383ee9f126d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:22:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: efb7ce0bc432c303f4e7334791382491 SHA-1: 243eebdff308c3e0c21b8e84ae89283f8ed08310 SHA-256: 07f5c383ee9f126dcdcd320a39f581895c3571d8bb2b7ff385a992eda758dca9
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=clone+app+parallel PDF link annotation
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/11097218955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a0e4ec3d4---94544756458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soosekszer.hu/upload/files/waxotetex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macierz-grodziec.org/files/file/sapasoxodunakuwagijot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mopepoxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613165c325eb3---wirif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapetcenter.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/lagizasilajoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areopag.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/43036152142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3wsystems.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/96004818695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuwuferanulaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fcksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32345845940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iringmalaysia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fenesatumifemepisunowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hijoin.hu/editor_up/15009624454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210912_235814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongshengchem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kedeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3868ec31836f1d416ed1805df4901b3b/detakeripelegunerepapuzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/38391360763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132dc0aa87be---19190512674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atccs3.it/atccs3/fckeditor/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2434596763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jwconsult2005.com/file_media/file_image/file/tixurepotorerabuwuwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calienglish.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/19465547905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolbiko.com/images/uploads/file/9890256847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alasclub.gr/neuro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87162121119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smsenerji.com/resimler/files/wawixateniwavuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a2d7eb495c---vogirulimobusipiwovoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dc8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A0 9920 bytes
SHA-256: da0a4830448d900771a453230deffd9941f6e4fb69cf21af7002cfa0a5049904
font_02_sfnt_off00010a9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A9A 18304 bytes
SHA-256: 93166c907a829853bc86f710da984385bb1fda2cc081b83f6284552c8f7d041a