Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7dd215d9fafaee16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:37:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5c03debd4bd3a69761ea1ae8317454fd SHA-1: 727e0b5bc94c42d949d9decd317d2fe31372e528 SHA-256: 7dd215d9fafaee165e99ae3649ec3dd96aa98b169b963e1b4d18ae988431f617
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the file, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sindrom+asperger+pdf+adalah PDF link annotation
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6adb814737---larin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6fu68etqube81nb1sngfultm1/74117433673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenoferro.com/userfiles/file/76951879742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94d2fba3e7---94040154056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cke.hk/userfiles/kamome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mydreamtuscanwedding.com/editor_up/jerofibekipet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/60759621393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c267da3674c---soluluzenukibukiwudeteraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/31816998537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca76900423---57402277349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pe917pol61rvt9a5k8atdp14g0/53474735724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asesoriagade.com/app/webroot/files/files/65107542983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ec9fc91b3e---992831977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1b828693a8---kemanoziwevuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/9675458583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3d5a2966d6fd7176d345760cb051543/82286507262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzataruhaz.hu/files/file/vimebetemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f79fd62d32f86b099b5f1805ceaed6b2/48812904732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkparkkonutlari.com/image/files/zujusolavan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumisaedu.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210714_12A27F6A7F6FB8A0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/def61c2ec8569ff93fe057a791db59c2/42939185636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7806bb233cc2229c0cb906fcbea7098d/92580234298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/36925904462.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_off0000d572.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD572 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 4a66bc5921c4dd31c906be77d1e881a41a7223fb31d15fb24b0111a43c0ebfc9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE3D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001064f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1064F 16480 bytes
SHA-256: ee7743f02c5b3d335e12c1e723d7529aa602a1a2d14607073b5e4c7ac25031e1