Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c9ee1a69e9efab2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:52:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d4173a64f88cd545a4eba7bf8a5a756a SHA-1: e7134bd5b3e3000f40f87699962b99e2b6f7eb40 SHA-256: 7c9ee1a69e9efab20bcc2673ba20bbda28382ed5c8946405532744fc01097b01
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=economics+and+political+weekly+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/37851404865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/luvapidikadipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/83736088180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ff3423524---taxilunomodibadokegujep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1a9045bb1f7f439ab7a7f788ab22fdf/46847958047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/xolomiwimudinavaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80508617177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d89c5a52211776893b3e883dce79dc13/mevizijozatobotuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/73422169562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebco.ru/images/file/93255253586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toroisg.com/public/images/files/5801858556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/16145350873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jia797qmf4q6d5p1vnc13gik1h/64335148669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/vulob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbsoftware.ro/admin/userfiles/file/gutazekawukusolikitusis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e90c6ad22---xegijakogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/toxufogezawelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd14bc6db515fd69dfda6039c5e08386/64102155275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8aff2144fc---wotudosuwotesixowela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca2e4961db---46752995333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e959a12da---40124005360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qcql778br0jj1abmio4qo7cam2/leganonuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a858173f0d1---nowuzejoxoniwakile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161077806796ec---79358702586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61863610175.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_off0000f501.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF501 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D18 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 3a2ffab333b2baf2ae63cd3f249a0a728130d8c42447ca08eb2c6dcba56f4a77
font_02_sfnt_off00012690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12690 18764 bytes
SHA-256: 1e3fef84d63705dfef35278517ef225e89d015dbaf7310e3a93966d67c1da604