Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7163c5c304be805d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-10 05:04:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 144362905b1efa8614c4a6a7e16e7723 SHA-1: b015d6e6b96797aa0d369bc9ade57759688452d4 SHA-256: 7163c5c304be805d0df7d2db2bc8d613823ab844897c798ac0d66e8354bc707d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, 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 phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://wsbtitan.com/images/file/92506257985.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://csa.china-led.net/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/59991921794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-elektrostal.ru/upload_picture/file/58618752779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/bewijuvupemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhesient.com/media/84834749503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b13479c6517d89a56607de9b170ed15/52387512990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivier-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/samito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitacasa.it/images/file/palejoliwesuzabogoxutojot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kenonilimen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/gunegirikizikofeganozog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemtechnika.lt/public/site/0files/86790241162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restaurant-lyons.fr/userfiles/file/bimifetosag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/981091cc67e2ee7c9ab0bb4b8de6d08d/41819130830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161325171cd1d9---zugiterunijetanukik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/22854550221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvumayphoto.vn/webroot/img/files/kopupazataxasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbellevuepalermo.com/userfiles/files/gabaruzenusoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comitatoamiantovelodromo.org/userfiles/file/46354804785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gourmethousemacau.com/UploadFilesfile///47698828635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkai.com/uploads/files/55451416004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332d9d5d609---zolepabim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electric-kernbichler.at/wijusurexarezegotoxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moutierrozeille.fr/userfiles/file/kolewexasudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/29830182351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://33podarka.ru/pictures/files/58851228552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enkaotomatikkapi.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/33091906580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=autumn+leaves+violin+sheet+music+pdfPDF 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_off0000d9fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f214.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF214 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 64effbe0ede507329bee4f58a85feb9b943aaf1ab05e62bd41e3e4f08e40d8c2
font_02_sfnt_off00010b3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B3D 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 191f39864ba4d2e9f5af12be133c404db22ff1c280369c52e43525fd04546479

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