Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7dcb57b8cff2f6f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-08-08 06:44:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: d621a2721178ada523291d88f8151ec5 SHA-1: 92c4d61658af00ccad3ffe1e7a45b18e4284b145 SHA-256: 7dcb57b8cff2f6f7c9f31950556feb56dc5b7c3bb17f9195cf6bad5524d0322f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=netflix+app+for+windows+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fb1f1d20f933fb82d8f86a07b6e0d1d/raboleturavixavetegida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/40374271070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietthanhstone.com/images/news/file/58146563357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tractortools.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wezefutukuleti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80age2amlc.xn--80adxhks/pics/images/file/93693646430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28de657efa---putodoxovakeguzolovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/68463172624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe6f03047c---potokenajiper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastrodibaglio.it/userfiles/files/dituraradapuzugisazemexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/powudegirozivinonudew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/44634233214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1acd2d8386---98514153060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonacorsi.it/file/6134765312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laxycoffee.com/upload/files/66798100555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenxuanhuong.com/upload/files/gikusezuwulilelonirakuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f534ba8c50---57068478754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7r8rrflikg6k5jerc6b95jcle/19163779787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakianco.ir/data/image/uploads/news/files/27927204831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac05da40ff9---42032046710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d710f308a3---mowed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/tuxolorob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/34763845048.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_off0000eef9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF9 18284 bytes
SHA-256: 5052ce3acc7e906ec8cd6378f9965c6881bcae41d03d2b2923363319382c9896
font_01_sfnt_off00011ed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED8 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 35588a5e9c8d3bf87e1933ebd4ca43430976bccf660aef8a9e2bc210fc548995
font_02_sfnt_off000137c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1