Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ce847e7271a2f46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-09 00:19:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 38b7d95b6cfab6b10ca407e262107479 SHA-1: 7b87faaa8ce96906d13915d789d7bd289f822319 SHA-256: 7ce847e7271a2f469239df37bafeca0501b23bf8437336634ce8c745f5cfe836
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, 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 embedded URLs point towards an attempt to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8bd6e71f406e4362c1e855d74b52a96/71054722679.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d3f745f8a0a4ecb3bcca7f864d62a86/tulivadir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8aa01a2c6---xutakosoxibazibonojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ba5e0c0672dbad23542c4262ea90498/35486143274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/fozipakoder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1vu7q3flnstfab78l4p8uv63s/zoguso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b272c185036---84938357233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1783423612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade1b481990---saberula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrorevisionimonregalese.it/file/kuxalivikabewarosamuxege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac447c5b769---37150635009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verdantnorwich.com/clients/3/30/306756bb587dffcd11ca74610d845a16/File/sazurunotoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/buduwexitalore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/gewuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/90893791150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisserarm.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/19455290928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3dbb5a5c4---kovog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplolux72.ru/upload/file/64341110470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpnk4ussj5tuofeo97lkocdtp5/gojepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://email-database.info/userfiles/file/jivofudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c83628d53---646033418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d73353b82fda1b17e4003e140eb8b7ab/fitegefuwudizefukiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a06da16bd9---22171865243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=guide+to+competitive+programming+antti+laaksonen+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E6 11260 bytes
SHA-256: 24cfd96bf6dbcda6cda632dad4360b96884507c90e6d799221f5a0a04ab610cf
font_01_sfnt_off00010127.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10127 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11939 19180 bytes
SHA-256: 46fe831df427bcb6da2813796235273dbd3079d3aeda88b57abbcbefeb55376b
font_03_sfnt_off0001494c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1494C 1700 bytes
SHA-256: 15171638d69c9281a983de8a04f8d213e5ed86d33053034f6aa0dd130c4010d8