Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7195fde32d62c63c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-28 05:35:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 27aece662bc6664638ea690de7d2c956 SHA-1: ee1837f8ff5fde8e0d9554a10072a2a0256eec3c SHA-256: 7195fde32d62c63c3c61685d9fdba236e6d3d416c3269ce65eaeab5255afcd8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of these links and the PDF structure strongly suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+transfer+contacts+from+android+to+iphone+via+bluetooth
    • http://congluc.com/upload/files/15827379806.pdf
    • https://gonguyenkhoi.vn/upload/files/wowogukozidubig.pdf
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2baf40b1de8d67f2dc73e6b3b777601c/texumosixadifenajibowo.pdf
    • https://history.tlshaa.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93343305890.pdf
    • https://aqua2go.pl/galeria/file/vofusotoraxe.pdf
    • http://zussobrance.sk/grafika/dokumenty/kodem.pdf
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74724606629.pdf
    • http://kvbm.org/pds/userfiles/files/jijepujexonoboxubusob.pdf
    • http://starma.pl/files/file/vituteriminut.pdf
    • http://igs.compcierge-asia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44683933084.pdf
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rrofr1fha0q33ik0a8e62frlj2/75015118877.pdf
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/togalumezi.pdf
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ca307afdaaa89729cc8a14ea572dba9/99045075546.pdf
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/nofijokexedodepaju.pdf
    • http://naszemotyle.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/75057903078.pdf
    • http://kosmonautika.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5797208209.pdf
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/23773203846.pdf
    • https://drhuanghair.com/uploads/files/202109152004187897.pdf
    • http://hyundai-baoloc.com/luutru/files/varuteporoza.pdf
    • https://pasarantogel2.com/contents/files/todogu.pdf
    • http://willbramephotography.com/gokedakiwi.pdf
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/rojadodiresegutelegek.pdf
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82u8uea6u2e0rrpbpkbtdl28n5/kokatuxigarivuzaxuxasari.pdf
    • 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_off0000b55a.bin
17893cdc413ddc0db0eed20cd8419e1bc891c7d6f1b911ba5c35cb529ec40e2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB55A 11268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf62.bin
b4639533614155673bde6756622fa4ea182ec3d1008bc0e19f6a1dbadcc648b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF62 17664 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb40.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB40 16792 bytes