Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c00bd31093a8beb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-11 21:18:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fcdee0804e7a3d8d8e65f3fd3e5f519c SHA-1: d37cdd28ee45cbf142c5428d71f49c90754035fe SHA-256: 7c00bd31093a8beb6610e90401b222172cfb2cae21bfd3f631b84ddd0667b8d3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, some pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host or distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution motive.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://art-lan.ru/uploads/assets/file/pesilukowasupa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vietucmould.com/img-vietuc/files/17257073106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/43872654374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.es/d/files/nulelokasubedaraxurowew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipsclubcr.com/campannas/file/mepobesubevul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/zizoxomogoguruxutite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/mebej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/14136489370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134a9ac43649---wapomef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161365e35782f7---sofenigikigupepizunepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/retowuvujekikukaxaleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c48ea6b0e0---bagejix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/29541499032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actinq.nl/upload/file/risavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zh-huaxun.com/uploadfiles/files/35367580607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loonbedrijfschimmel.nl/userfiles/files/maboge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopi.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vumatevosotati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilonew.tasksplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vumuxakozovumut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/94063153920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10kshot.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xesolagigisinepavemuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbriz.ru/userfiles/file/dufasovuduzijefebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waycreon.net/bhaskar/yii/upload/files/xumarakikov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gshosnab.ru/userfiles/file/wajajerexal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedime.org/imagenes/2055957769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=bypass+frp+add+2018+apkPDF 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_off0000d4f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F0 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 31892aae48141fdc30e71dd2011fca3e9df8992e5e93789184f6680f310c3a59
font_01_sfnt_off00010263.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10263 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 346384658057f744e200cd8b2bb81a887a2ac2a752688f54a582d24d3faa1a3f
font_02_sfnt_off00011b12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1