Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7023fc75462e7f9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-11 09:13:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1c6b5ebe4ba5c49da8ca4f9c6135511a SHA-1: 38991a36e42952fed0847a8ac3754650f66d02ea SHA-256: 7023fc75462e7f9e13f872bb53d15db85fc2e8406f84176e445f0f5585ebd808
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://marinaxaraes.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gulerovurivulekoxi.pdf
    • http://buyyoutubecomments.com/ci/userfiles/files/95768946201.pdf
    • https://rotitelor.com/contents/files/repekowuwinuk.pdf
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/sowupe.pdf
    • http://m3hotels.com/userfiles/file/68800046999.pdf
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39189295294.pdf
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tivok.pdf
    • https://kingyao.com/uploadfiles/files/20210910_135827_2518.pdf
    • http://shengyaweb.com/uploadfile/file/2021090603041816.pdf
    • http://budka39.ru/files/54571955302.pdf
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394b744f948---65386211724.pdf
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2sabovi8tbqdas5v6vsrsjb0k7/wovagupilijuzedoxeso.pdf
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/33783333197.pdf
    • http://canadianartistic.com/userfiles/file/66420297857.pdf
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1vlq4jjivun11q3b2m25rs6m8/96617138719.pdf
    • http://phone-server.com/userfiles/file/tofonomuluwozewifika.pdf
    • http://yourhealthyanswer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96659045657.pdf
    • https://balarampurblock.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taziz.pdf
    • https://inprovitchile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51642147322.pdf
    • http://vssteel1999.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/totowexikaxowixewerumugo.pdf
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pevidigopuk.pdf
    • https://self-storage.sg/images/uploadedimages/file/41411695465.pdf
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/pumukavipu.pdf
    • https://siemreaptraveltours.com/userfiles/file/nakogezugo.pdf
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/73621021132.pdf
    • http://enslev-anlaegsservice.dk/userfiles/file/kiruligozupopajede.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=hollywood+movies+torrentz2
    • 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_off0000be5b.bin
595ba6a772693083700662accdb63442edf6272cd2e36b6c387bac05c53e3dbe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE5B 15924 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6ca.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6CA 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fee1.bin
f6293bcf750c01744aa1af750d9cf4d27a148424a6979211ea806be731e43703
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE1 10684 bytes