Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d644360b06b8f9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-30 23:19:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 759f159c00d0c6c23decb9d43c976795 SHA-1: 73c2292bd9c263df2a0617c2ee0949149639ac18 SHA-256: 7d644360b06b8f9b50bbb359cdaeb4985c2b2a2a5679a7999ebf579fc982e997
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs suggest a tactic of luring users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=top+10+offline+survival+games+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://istruttorecinofilo.it/userfiles/file/42822631230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ed38f3e56a---28033840871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/64493222741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomas-music.com/contents/files/zetubufezufirubozel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://checopharma.com/upload/files/lirazanixobabavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://se-ty.com/uploads/userfiles/file/91283603388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akrmedia.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99701588580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnoe4lq06m5l9kl7f25pduilbu/50456326049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/xuxezuluxolelaginavagow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeevadhara.org/work/london/userfiles/file/90974707329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzsienis.cvzona.lt/resources/img/files/66950205853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promenade-perpignan.com/userfiles/file/37892456360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/naxisexodok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcp-ranstadt.us/files/jofomez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohcsi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fajaxusoxudilinigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/sinuromidetodavezeterif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asoriofrio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/barijen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/dadasaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/suzijonubimiximo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saiprogetti.net/userfiles/files/11711346143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142d9e82522a---38304692651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/chbfo7rpvu0ienra8b28usv9tb/tazexow.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_off0000b237.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB237 16264 bytes
SHA-256: c56aad59480a83e4eb410ea6fdfa1db5dc6c052e18278f22df940da736b57703
font_01_sfnt_off0000db9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B4 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 06cb7d1325083027f933a2d79003ceac309c6f0fe4f70e88f827f34c05e42f25