Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c0996c700d5f832…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-08-21 07:41:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d348bd42c35249f000725a774f1b06d2 SHA-1: a344891112013ae03a6adb87ca9b9043673cf18e SHA-256: 7c0996c700d5f8323367321b5aa4d0841559c0fb267f56b8ab6428c54d55b559
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to direct users to malicious or compromised sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://zapcdn.space/web/img/podborky/files/44014832133.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba35dd48e5a---49032999724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c859f8161c1---jiginawejazoromikoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608608ca866b7---30495208147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c13b18624ea---6855361458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/kefebejaxevatulinujojimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/wataxumikisezodemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e980b7a0a---gazamojezedopevadif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ci2ot0hpgup4ct98cqumi8go4p/seromijasiwolibono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/90173683266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/lozekasugomesuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1621564412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/zotiwekeled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f851ccc79b7---sidopepujetoxexodomag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tebsc.com/clients/84181/File/bigopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propactionvehiclesuk.tv/userfiles/files/lemijubitukox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pscv16eft8v7qvsmuhphjj3nn8/14073637031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terwaarde.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42867154924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contextuae.com/resimler/files/kosulunubifebaroxapizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/an72k3foc2n2o7hsi2dlj1tbr3/29220949044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevoir.hu/uploads/file/48075884558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/penidijigekemujup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///59460147185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=nclex-rn+questions+and+answers+with+rationale+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0681cfd840c2970d6eacf40f8406ead/57167785759.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_off0000f489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF489 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 25f4295bb02389a060bbd3fd8a9b6e7722106565fc0f5dac52ed1823d79ad753
font_01_sfnt_off00010e7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E7E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12690 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 64d465118e94471821c7418499be52ab7074a042c5ff25ba0c7b00ab12d97fc7