Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c967578988f4dde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:07:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: bfbf6db2657d6524a959f66565ca7301 SHA-1: c1708e45b308184e3744dfab0c3ad4680ee2f9b9 SHA-256: 7c967578988f4ddeed8d13bf2a564f9f841596a28187f2f4c3b336e69b030649
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the extensive use of external links is a clear indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=d%26d+4e+player%27s+handbook+2+free+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/sedawisosowifamabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a42d11983acb606db79312d3e5013f8/70386747371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/93621025982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gndpta.eu/news_objects/files/jegugurejopufixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f4a8247b4---60683060280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adcac1e0749---29937944023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/sanufarapefowazik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qs5d2n5k5tm4ofmlq9feh8v295/20364385063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31d1b80e20a00b4807fa93feb68f3f4b/gasefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalfeedindustry.com/upload/files/90915382157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a1dd273a9---85136339178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4eabf640ed---mowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/54617333527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://britishcytology.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34650246521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahodayabbsr.com/test/fckeditor/file/83088362976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minisadik-margaritka.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bozijano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4lovokui9g6n8j6kpffllcc07/17391854667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1982thsreunion.com/clients/a/a8/a85c6617a93da1462bf6c3e7dda9c043/File/43149699527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lossfundraisingevent.com/clients/f/f5/f5ed5e364f2f51aa46a4c5982fab9a07/File/pobugoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3989ff5afd2ea283731e473d627e97fd/runafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/belamisiribe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/vajevezur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a0621cd775---77286696099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077faf297cbf---xonaja.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_off0000d78a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD78A 9076 bytes
SHA-256: f695977626623e59fedb2fbedebd468d0acf89ff6f6ceafeb3cee4351ddee6c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA2B 22808 bytes
SHA-256: 5f0a35a2ffab880565b1602a6856cabe6d19a7913e7758561147c3e5beeda20c
font_02_sfnt_off00012665.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12665 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1

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