Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b95ce2dccdb1c18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 00:56:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3c282e583d7a26683fc8513cccdeb489 SHA-1: 9563483753f1ce8b50752ac6524e9a35d064bd67 SHA-256: 7b95ce2dccdb1c18ccd35e51df02885eecc22a92b4a7529823c1ae9b8732a354
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the document is designed to redirect users to external sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://matrixx.lu/images/52069369828.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142629bea1a3---36932970300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongbanja.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/8759295257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/4907596916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingbakerypans.com/userfiles/file/84642578230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyko.pl/userfiles/file/vimomebotogiwisanebulopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/56728459908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142a284e6c95---tuwisosoruketarokurape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cda47644d4---88879249364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spiregene.com/image/files/20210903_232644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketypik.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/9834374708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pravkniga.ru/files/userfiles/files/28168885278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://downtowncincyhotels.com/core_degree/admin/images/cms_imagesfiles/fofevukerejutux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enjoyvaltellina.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8088408317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwcecckolkata.org/FCKeditor/file/4609676577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabini.it/userfiles/files/lijurogatolurelirew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8642ee204---vixupufuwoxajitowegareju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparationmobile.net/userfiles/file/rufixukewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gujaratisamajparis.org/upload/files/22393712297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artattack-concerts.de/files/file/69838860368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/guwobolabufetuton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/kobesinanugobukituwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fd2416a199---30403799373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/birerisuteluxefurexep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=6th+class+social+textbook+telugu+medium+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_off0000b7ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7EC 11368 bytes
SHA-256: a7c7de18311e73c2093d358a46950a7bbfc9624538435ffb578617e32f1b4117
font_01_sfnt_off0000d24f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD24F 18852 bytes
SHA-256: 8e4a6b544bf6bb7da75162c824c8b118f85f7ca8ca68e8ab3e85ba1217e4c11e
font_02_sfnt_off000101e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1