Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b63c17e36d2088c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:00:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c8b8d3d8d4fc88a396902ccea34288c2 SHA-1: 0c9afbbb28abd05387ef95962e4d4f4de2fbad90 SHA-256: 7b63c17e36d2088c78331812f45af4d1a67810a5cfdd9a98748273f7fa0a4080
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on compromised or disposable domains. These links are likely intended to facilitate phishing attacks or distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=coartacion+aortica+neonatal+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://mensagemcrista.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63006314197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sec-ollivier-associes.fr/www/upload/file/zimagorewexototakorako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinkorea.com/files/files/52204476660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/relesomojadamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/bevodevisupegifalalab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/retewutigafowisefag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32ec6cb526---53024333220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konzolstudio.ro/uploaded_files/file/seferaroruvadag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb289406f46---83914359739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64c5c164f3207b5a0a544ab4abc8613d/10312738761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115092350be9---xokuwizewazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jafotovasezux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sms-dk.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210808_7B060CF247E7001E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3764801cf0842d44b5070af728a48e3/jemulemoporiguwojoviwala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b228a08eef5---17046399901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e8507615ea---lezunapemipakajilojup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecoevopublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/66934186043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa5e0f468d960652529d529103d603bd/xusexixowipew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijntherapie.be/uploads/files/48849583755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinxinghotel.com/uploads/files/91268740033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhongresort.com/img/files/tegesinawusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwpokebar.com/uploads/files/6954455278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/95362455031.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_off0000da76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f288.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF288 18388 bytes
SHA-256: 13a464680f8dceea3351c52f1473dac57af4315e2f6fc9970a47dafd4c8591e2
font_02_sfnt_off00012225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12225 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 8492f2a2a9771d9c1bc1daaabc6a83c90132e635f38b4d84bb2cd5413567d974