Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d2633315c09f558…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 13:51:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0616414f817697d81e75faca7a218b42 SHA-1: 06a0489bd251e94bc5f036d82ee01f21e9a849df SHA-256: 7d2633315c09f558fc7cce89c5b6c795ec025ca31a55a340702f0453952b8b50
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics strongly suggests this is a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d524b727ba---zilivipevagerivudifudet.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://compow.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20982710895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8009608e0---88051108254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belly.bpv.su/content/files/files/34936864521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4366173b514ca548ebbe0ade94711292/81210669117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepsima.biz/files/file/migopuzefetamusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/70034702538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613beb99bbb52---81443462968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baliretreatcenter.com/olabali_ci/media/images/newsfiles/kekiraro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coolbiotech.com/upload/files/tebixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etest.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/22990548073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reversetheclocknow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuwupirotopezel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-echen.com/uploads/files/202108312254356328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/fufobari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettocecinacuore.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/patanavoguka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad261832c630c8c48a67ddc3b6032905/witawesamugorosadifiweguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat2.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/binubazojexugavuvitirali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palazzodiaz.com/userfiles/files/lubazifonatakivikagidoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agpbmdtf.xn--p1ai/upload/file/menoresuwubaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12f074cc49949409d78a01795fbb3e6e/foxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbdc.co/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10108932438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suksesunited.com/contents/files/12439572062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alaskaproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/fasaposobifexawodolak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sherwoodchamber.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89078523546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=essentials+of+investments+11th+edition+solutionsPDF 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_off0000b5dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDEE 16272 bytes
SHA-256: 70bbd3e7999cfb5e65ba23bee10afffc0eefb04c223cf915c2f0d5ae13a7df30
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C5 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 4c1524643001b63b2a9fea82cd147e6eee1e5c234131b94b19805339c9485448