Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bcbed226e498c7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:05:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 63fd852e0e478f2f2f7229cce02ec79c SHA-1: ca51ae7f5bad4dd143e19400fd9d3d4895f5797d SHA-256: 7bcbed226e498c7cbf89720e23f71c8ca97e053483c5025d61cd8674798e3d73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=innovation+process+steps+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://collegemahan.ir/basefile/collegemahanir/files/wesiwonemodaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-system.jp/uploads/2012/files/jebuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/84319788126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetyassessmentsolutions.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2609832183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e183bc0bd---81539383584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6963139765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asap-recruitment.net/upload/file/majobujos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvacations.com/userfiles/file/dasoxolasipesisanoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playbabydoll.com/userfiles/file/lilujemigazete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minipowerpack.net/upload/files/1953902317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ecvssb7ablulhdju65hgovvhd/rubimiganeximifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysidehigh65.com/clients/d/d0/d00d1ad1640c45b888f5e58ac216a5d1/File/jedulapubuzik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resumesfromabove.com/userfiles/file/vafuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servicedental.it/userfiles/files/11124799326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68a44667ea7d32ad452726c78627ab77/pesotebopudosipagakez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dialogueinpraxis.net/files/docs/69401543360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arab-hams.com/Ups/files/lanibaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1f59ba3edd15b0ffeecee6a4bbd75a1/71767782674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4f028f759---dugij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kisito.com/userfiles/file/56335130973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doudou.tw/userfiles/files/39364795530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae24846c47f---mobagereviganurowogofot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efdf2e491d2---lutexilorisumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5vcik1tqt7qaj9l2gj5s1pnabp/91086971072.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_off0000e507.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE507 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD1E 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 19b632d90c7ba17f1837a8895a203cc8b805390f2a20ab0090c3397f300a2cda
font_02_sfnt_off0001156e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1156E 18232 bytes
SHA-256: 48c2206b41e3fac0b81bfcc25ac9fbd7aeaf36f699a9c20cb076fe90cb1ecb13