Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f7dba732009396f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:26:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 08c39132b189ed609d2b05a4d7ee969d SHA-1: bb7dbac94244df51d196737c3ca5b87624bbafb4 SHA-256: 1f7dba732009396f662f8225e7d3dc873c484462698570d41d01bfaa8e888e9e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded URLs and link farm heuristics point towards the document's primary function being to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=epl+fixtures+2018%2F19+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5132d0eaca6b935b5bac8fa712d60166/2787153885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minutemen-jrotc.com/clients/84940/File/73165981113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calendarsunrooms.com/userfiles/files/katifugizowonuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/90953229130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072626b05be0---91053045960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/zivutukudenekivebibif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/betowokevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkercombsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/df/dfd517ab040340b2551da60fba195f5f/File/dozajulusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plewmal-d.com/Uploads/files/minuzopusawidozotelek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/46236952368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a79d240e82e976e3cdfd2d4a8ea7ffb0/3731508187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/040dff804393b312e92a6106ae8739f5/93561015578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ec963359ac---munadenudefovobumujumete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuoriscena.eu/file/mitafefekevavirizamar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898308ac840---7531427407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/42162119964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kopdesign.nl/userfiles/file/43828554828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084796936207---64380386526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhieuchuan.com/upload/files/ropuwamibopirefovamuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e50747793f9---xoriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dq4nmrn6pp23779kepvl7436u4/minovosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nolovanutuvanekaxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/23912778429.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_off0000d7de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7DE 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 43afc22a2c2644a96479d7730df2c2af08aefe5bc32227550512b6acadabd95b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000109c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109C4 17996 bytes
SHA-256: dbd25f456472553996528a0e407c6283c005d814b80bac9888b884c20b1b4b39