Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c7f236cdee129db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 03:31:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: aba3feb08f0115d07a5adb757c5a3c01 SHA-1: df0ef07107b27570d210c53b42061aa7db8a8eea SHA-256: 1c7f236cdee129db6c4f42e75b2d663f8d3e8553f48c7ea34c9447f5d29f5e45
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://helpibr.org/clients/f/fe/feaff840d005acecac0f151e8679c8db/File/31417110876.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssra49ihmq0mgc5smvmhoks9m2/24720148846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdcb07c4737---6599742457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8e4d37e58---75553025516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d03158ad5---sekakud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/5296835076091e771cd158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/gipomigebokekal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itandem.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56321909653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/xowofufazopeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zigzagontwerp.nl/sites/default/files/file/vutedufebusujokobikafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cabb9f8acb1---davuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/48400047704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d4b50517a---91469887024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706d30d532d---42662917690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/tisutijewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082200c8c50e---gelonurejalevejaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arab-hams.com/Ups/files/22724667242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c112c82314---fotigurikaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bqjorqf8p90fugk59hu45lacs6/71763729159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbmeti.it/userfiles/files/xoxowumefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eea6d92e7435adf91aa4aa2136a2f97/remagajufulesosufese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiduongmetal.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/51985458511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff0878a4a5---92866667361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+do+you+need+notary+forPDF 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_off0000e079.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE079 17024 bytes
SHA-256: ec6353d3e8b02588ce99fff8d6b999d06923e80097d1539da894ad381d348b66
font_01_sfnt_off00010ce8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000124ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124FF 10352 bytes
SHA-256: e3236c422377824fe3a06753b16cf77aa304bf9f3f4e8d4bdd08b6e9f877c7cc