Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7dcfbc9b447f0462…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 10:37:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d20f8ff185276d7d25857344f1f0cef9 SHA-1: 9736363bec1e6f1496ebdcc6a0649377c908dca6 SHA-256: 7dcfbc9b447f0462423386494049d0d5d1c65ecbb62a79649125464d26302a02
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.001 Process Injection

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=format+of+research+paper+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/22336033125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be50194e1a9---20224499761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021043000224873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/65728831714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/defunosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/193772455086bd670e72f1f09bf7173f/sigaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafegreenwichvillage.com/uploads/files/morakinidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7704c5c70---17569332883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stbenedikt.ch/userfiles/files/tarazemanetarurij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076206aa1c20---52771430802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6mu5iod4kidbsacbpttttgegf3/12777726617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ced78edf533---devexuruzejej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/zugudineriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/zibaxomuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efb2e96a61---polutoduvipupexoxovopewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3203a1288774672e946c8f01d69389ac/48796140195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/kajesubub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdc7b1d1a2---83669391907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b4c76042c---kodilubev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n213q64poi9as58fe69mjkfhf7/63627820193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/vosew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04fda86e3119b810df582ca8da5586d2/40320100902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d759d75ff8e5ecb9eb6dc1d62f08ae9b/66935365004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/peteko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d43b0f30a5e248d5f24f983063115095/34366314009.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_off0001189f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1189F 16800 bytes
SHA-256: 3984778ae54ce18c70772ee05546f14baa47800ae3016d1a36efac1afeffcfab
font_01_sfnt_off00014458.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14458 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 0dedca5fd602e2803c5e6aa611f668cc5fe8e9ad8adaeb8326334bf614ad2aab
font_02_sfnt_off00015ca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CA2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1