Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7137da0cd4848f44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-10-05 04:02:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 8b9e3a8060892617a44480794454f80d SHA-1: 010c1e76def6a0facac9e7aaa0379f041b5d2539 SHA-256: 7137da0cd4848f440689242775056851ac90f617a23406950e5cdce62d714e86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal a link farm structure pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=red+dawn+2018 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156b00c8fc30---50966459020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.integra-cr.cz/administrace/ckfinder/userfiles/files/degunoxalenifixesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hmgfinance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jamiwojokusudivolixamove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranysolyomfeszke.hu/editor_up/vabokudidimug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianphoiduyloimodel.com/Images_upload/files/77869699620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/719bb4c8f64d6bbe2683fe76606baa72/83331011261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igraonica.me/userfiles/file/43207509983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/dalumerufupebekavis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.highlandernepal.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64559076018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdbm.vn/upload/files/5655889152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saddabro.com/userfiles/file/xewek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servicenter.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tumesoxinatawupoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/xosid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasuminhtam.com/Images_upload/files/dimisod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saint-party.com/media/file/nimopijoxapizojaxepaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalltechnik-kutschi.at/12175480318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungquanghieu.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/pipimarix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twapp.freshkon.com/upload/files/kutelage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioimaychaybo.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/48271000631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143963348954---10204246554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekkercoon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xagidur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympicthesportshop.in/uploads/4904650530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e68ee8edc3---43559599431.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_off0000dbe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE2 19464 bytes
SHA-256: 9b9253c110fd35eab4c23f81452306b6b0f67edf5b83fcbc6032923ac1970916
font_01_sfnt_off00010e44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001265b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1265B 10252 bytes
SHA-256: 95e3723b08d4aa0e0fb1ab479488beedf6a9eb2452b0bd58126622c4d2497bd8