Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b7b3fc7942cc6d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-09-26 03:49:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: bdf9a68da3fc04e14ee0ce51720e1632 SHA-1: 4f60e638f4962c9a8d224eef58f22d33e82a1269 SHA-256: 7b7b3fc7942cc6d1ea30652ee1a5336775ba3ed30fc1c03c0d47ec48726a3aa7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+android+apps+2019+free PDF link annotation
    • http://wujipacking.tw/upload/files/karikamomugifoguxofaperuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d9d9c7d1c8---1529777572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/zikerel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/suponu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impex-italia.it/userfiles/files/46084108358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/96705363667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161479cb289723---vowebuletigodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmfegypt.com/userfiles/files/fixikitupekudula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budaors.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/55536652042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solartgaleria.hu/images/file/45656850165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/katisuvezome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunakeszi.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/biruxivifixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masini-de-ambalat.ro/images/userfiles/69640938097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locum-system.pl/userfiles/file/21208730952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/patukirofomofozegelumiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keystoparadise.com/userfiles/files/makug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aqleisjjpndt0f6v8mlelg68c1/dosozibojezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cd5bd579be---38582748145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupits.cm/uploads/fck/file/50636248353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/33467264969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/09/26/file/20210926_050753_101.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_off0000afd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFD9 15340 bytes
SHA-256: 2ae370a9766ff08d478784f8abd84558503264332a81177d47b92d4d58228bac
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5F9 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 8cb6675afa14781c071c7679e61d4d1b008fa79438957c2b683cffdb42907adf
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF98 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1