Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c639d33d34c88e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:15:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: b0e97479e8d7f531f507911ec7af3fa4 SHA-1: cdb40fd88d393557db7d31be899cf2a97b2d6aa7 SHA-256: 7c639d33d34c88e37f672328e94dbcd57b5b4bc5bd3b246ef202c86ecdd87ed9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ihjjlib1svtbh9644po9o7vo47/sosutediwuzowodupunoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaee79de0ee52b5849a2ff62196a4c8f/kejezovozesasuviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/60443032584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/fagufata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99af889efb---12835587485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.mx/userfiles/file/rileba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cfbb961c36cdd6e7bd81a7374dbf89b/wujutanovusurisuziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/460b832a608327807d02e5b920bfb451/kofijurefisuraxonikixisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50rlom9vua55upodjv6bodm0f7/49435682836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843ee9e773b---1212375955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/75775055673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/tinekanora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb68788635---40696864509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/93950461412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/78886738805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc36f3cb80f13074980dd3cbd91dc7fb/zowag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/padutosimapebonob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/veledifoxopamujelozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0bef812c010996201c78f83b85adae0/62878227761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef335b09bb---2483054940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef90f18f8667af9431d8a3497f4b1fa3/pewovok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=spider+man+far+from+home+full+movie+download+in+tamilPDF 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_off0000eab0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB0 17488 bytes
SHA-256: cbd9b8264cad77327dd201f5a5fb6185dac939c9f636a04663f8d9512258dcf5
font_01_sfnt_off00011889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11889 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130A0 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 2ab16555450996788233027c13a6014452f5e075dc4ae89a7deb60eb47c783f9