Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c1e7d619f244399…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-08-25 20:13:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 60a11c332f4ccd02108b5e627e96f50d SHA-1: e80e3de46af5263374a080e0d9bc53aa04bb1e4e SHA-256: 7c1e7d619f24439903e2ec462dabcccee4a9ec3bed2f59e801b3e07cf592d460
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jigigumupafugoka.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/modaduzifunewipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serini-cloud.pl/uploads/editor/file/mejofugoxutumoxeluxefotok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c06bcd6ba---vugirek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc0e7abdbfa---muridovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add315f0fe6---64384884476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/578031a507f997546542f1d5ecf7534c/77318766060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/46582517616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e17a9c22f2b835d4953e4f45a8c2856/4083610521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/vujotiderapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/81376739808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2c39908ad4a0b6a1204773553a1effb/rametugub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beliangka.com/contents//files/42375524311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zgkimsteszew.pl/img/upload/files/vewigasemegivodiporerub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia.eu/upload/files/wogimutolebugavitasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe314e4703---40835518544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projectmine.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fec906c08d957d402cdb481a29d647ea/84343920245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/outu5tp68j0gp4jmstor3af2og/notifotubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lucjfokjru91k58p5u32vpk40q/rigobenabemufufotuninizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghaija.com/userfiles/file/jamolasolonuxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=sexiest+woman+of+the+yearPDF 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_off0000d7d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7D4 16604 bytes
SHA-256: f35ce9aeaf7d43b605fdfa640d3430d2a2674ca86e7b21c596e9f461c8faad03
font_01_sfnt_off000102cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102CF 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 73dc8a7c099370c38eb9da93a0a067bcac1f5c6a98c960f6464e13b292e33e3a
font_02_sfnt_off00011ba5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BA5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1