Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c064beaa9ca0f01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 00:33:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e8b15f4f3c801dc3fa5dd34935e30b69 SHA-1: db7da972369beac51ffc4d98840f85b2ec9b03c1 SHA-256: 7c064beaa9ca0f017752cf86311efc448b844e01cee1750220a63123e1b78efb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of link farms and disposable hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bff78fad2be---11684299146.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ijpdua.com/contents/files/rubebirufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buyafranchise.org/files/files/49690747979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basealimentare.it/webroot/files/fck_uploads/File/dajezejesikuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dogathermalhotel.com/resimler/files/kazaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8022941a1ebb82b5d53c04124899ba1d/27892852411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a661055f057---4239079695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/38279896502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.loscam.com/lib_common/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70105473646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group.com/ci/userfiles/files/82088985301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brightwayconsultancyservices.com/userfiles/file/91703247728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb5fa65bfa5b32d40b1f48ca7dc8f163/mujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/61189797220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anctools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18668120169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/zefipire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/47319247865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/6740094967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rbtyutj01.com/userfiles/files/gekizorarexubodaloxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microlana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70030940931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a92a177d63---taleda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/64970295942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a3e933a6d31ccd2080bc10e86080bb9/71816879279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kampusogrenciyurdu.com/file/pojimulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runningrhinelanderrabbitry.com/clients/875187/File/pemap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/46124493637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+importance+of+cognitive+psychologyPDF 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_off0000b8ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d101.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD101 15620 bytes
SHA-256: fe5dbce7137a72d3295c4a11f3f8757b72b029927e19023ad9a404d5ba129229
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8BB 11100 bytes
SHA-256: b0a38a91fc55ef17c198e6b5a94240b8c37235324b183608d5355b5b5908246e