Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c1660d656a78d76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-08-01 10:15:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d3017df7800f78e622db13b8bad3d143 SHA-1: f4398c94b6fc4d19267802a5f9a61312c0a46fc9 SHA-256: 7c1660d656a78d76cfb85d764ab41ada4a8bc7a11e11429f7f691ab4b06bdb86
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 domains flagged as potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of link farming, likely to manipulate search engine rankings or direct users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47933289203.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/mitexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917e2f99ae6---22527026472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gewot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/37967119229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariancozma.com/_user/file/puwilatefolati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/wefewedaxotaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrocom-spb.ru/userfiles/files/62315165293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085581c29923---gunubufamalal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doganagolosa.it/file/jarupopekuwema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5kjsg8s7l3g2a83ftlp13j5n03/64485944977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxmeterthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xefefuwomerujuwulaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ccengis.be/applications/ckeditor/addons/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles//files/28940974867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9264c448c088524297df41cb3df800f9/bezubawizadonovexabomejoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovad-ltd.com/userfiles/file/49555374983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/42989717775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuhs1981.com/clients/8/82/82ca37c076ec4232796cb58ed009bb3a/File/81781214349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/xazikitedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f92094eff---tonemolemidajur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1c318b0d56---koluvazebugikilubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=define+disc+personality+profilePDF 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_off0000fc80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC80 17096 bytes
SHA-256: e0b70cc22b15136988970b69e0f50ada7d2e40c2dae074f9e90d9c640c7e7029
font_01_sfnt_off00012903.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12903 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 83cce410d0739e8578d148003bf781d139c4fec6b6a54f680994e93d299cf788
font_02_sfnt_off000141cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1