Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d83c85bd1a7e9dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 06:38:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f9dc020cb980d0c702ff8765899ec455 SHA-1: 10aa806200745d74a6f25a3fd4bc4ee2511a2cbc SHA-256: 7d83c85bd1a7e9dd90bdd884df2f15da87cf8d32a1f23acb8704e4a4b8046924
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to create a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=auto+likes+and+views+instagram PDF link annotation
    • http://ghinelliarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/mekaxadokabuxojimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/leclnj60o4u6qgmjkbv3agsmdq/fasewaxalanamewageketu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barahi.com/assets/userfiles/files/31507857878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fb62a193f9---54792777579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomacanthe-art.fr/imagebeforeafter/files/fegusifapogalon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farmaciapenil.es/userfiles/files/93819614763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcable-bg.com/uploads/pictures/files/bimisalatid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://surupaceanu.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3860129457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epicridesnepal.com/files/vejibibone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwcapital.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luvivitadasaxirojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songiadahoaian.com/upload/ck/files/90461795829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136782a19054---xotutij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotel-la-licorne.fr/userfiles/file/tufoxunexemutekunuvezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magicdiscoradio.hu/userfiles/file/27146355791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florissantdesign.nl/docs/Image/file/nuziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtamgiasuhcmmq.com/uplaod/quangtri/files/71902380288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzo-galeria.hu/files/file/liwamugud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marjojaspers.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gutiwalilaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragoniresorts.com/userfiles/kisizolituvotaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventss.ru/userfiles/files/74291869115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/20628736649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longruiglass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210914_090506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135eea42f71c---semusemudewiromerak.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_off0000b2aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cabc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCABC 15696 bytes
SHA-256: 597ee7c8563e01074ccc25f62bba61198dba59db0ca738a28f231d3cbaec569a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E4 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 77358d541bbf02e36343e5bca62388575d7e9ad5da1fd2271ff824e2c4e9b3d3