Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7653d4683faa2992…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-26 11:02:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: f1957e0b60f1e64529528d7f65f6fed4 SHA-1: a7c7de86a181cadfd674a1fbc196a874d0b5afe7 SHA-256: 7653d4683faa29922d5defb770117dd5beb4b80a75c83ea96b014fa4399dea3d
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 ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=batman+the+killing+joke+streaming PDF link annotation
    • https://badoza.net/userfiles/file/65702179097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakesushilakehavasu.com/uploads/files/83803549746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuqiaohome.com/uploads/files/202109171903076776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/gazoxujopugox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148461ef2255---32666003156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phukienbep.net/media/files/74778965423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledins.lv/cms/file/4461255586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aedelsur.com/contenido/files/43602649640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alhurwallpaper.com/Files/files/76769221247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icaalliance.org/filespath/files/20210916152722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ee3e9e7fc---pikirazogizidagijonubome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eminenceinc.com/userfiles/file/pijutavumexafonimaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfo-fond.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/files/jakijozuroruxixere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hlj-vibration.com/uploads/image/20210920/files/20210920075716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premium-house.uz/images/file/80753079040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balalajka.nu/media/25895017311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synergyproperty.com/images/files/bukivojuwojaxunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roofmed.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614245da9dc0a---ragepetotasatitaxilubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/poviximinuvid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ea6a0212d2---68326352573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzzwchem.com/upload/files/12108390054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunkamalzemecilik.com/userfiles/file/pomivanabanoxoj.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_off0000bf32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF32 19564 bytes
SHA-256: 63c48f0c8e817c4251d86a5d5c45c5012dabb4bfe415b94bb694ec6e929585c0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A01 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 8fd3577ec7b5d5b38a1db94accbf03f401390987d127e5d246ceb58ca2d02b52