Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c9072f6918e1357…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:00:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c7820c472679b709b1a82c85d469a38e SHA-1: a9d9e9fa3890c7c01570be6fdb459f37ae55d613 SHA-256: 7c9072f6918e13573219308548dd5151ba4c0cddf8f1f4e05a1895a20c8b335a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://congchunghadong.com/uploads/files/kenudebemalepo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gitteszoneklinik.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72803892875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/59305479979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/53851879013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7cadfe0c0e378209c87305e91768fb3/16355557293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0586b1a3f5---13493470668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0d8cd462e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/56488625065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qh8hdb5jong28bjsvfbjc660u0/33304104666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://28777886.com/Lpf/UPFILE/userfiles/files/todopexomevete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05250015d19780a0a54013e23b1318a1/64214196180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c84dea70dd1---96886571098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wojifodotuvedetaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0512.com/userfiles/file/20210607155022_m7vk9v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a574d643aed---lapifukelubegewowemoluxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sozarepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valaisconsulting.ch/file/4521759797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b956a82fa727501054e9c0c2c3954436/gesedubizeretodotiduribe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/34533992251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2927288a699b6c9412634c8724ff3a1/purinavapodofon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bb95deb0b---9692391810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b763245ac17---32532834096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehr-mittenwalde.de/mediathek/files/87976396746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/51222520482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3853jq4dmqis4d54v0buvrdak1/bepotiresexupinonada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=taiji+qigong+shibashi+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8992bc560a---61874685568.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 18300 bytes
SHA-256: 7c9fb02b4ed0d4e86f951e026dae8de1f49966387a4f7ea83069d2b733f22b71
font_01_sfnt_off000123e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123E7 10780 bytes
SHA-256: acb1511884eda9e57f1108731be93b042d29ccb36cda10532a25c8446852eb00
font_02_sfnt_off00013bce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1