Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e392b22c85a9522…

MALICIOUS

PDF

133.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:17:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4560105db32da3cadb6ab8f78bbcd253 SHA-1: 93db267ace58f09c5cec33e8a7952ea7f53dfcf8 SHA-256: 7e392b22c85a9522ab56440d4faefc4d35f908abe0104f416e4c037ac29eb247
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9945

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=guia+resident+evil+2+remake+pdf+descargar PDF link annotation
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/nevubofusozokase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65f94a04d8---dezezivodotilirube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kieryk.pl/img/userfiles/file/tubetifapopemilagef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b2d09c8dd---12412798071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/31954614204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9d3b4bcf75---20098086294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pgkaapisj9c2c7s5fm2559qpja/xexodigamik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appvid.eus/userfiles/files/dazikakofabunorapupidir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0bb347a8e6---bovibadixajugumifafiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grapes4u.ca/sites/all/sites/grapes4u.ca/files/43008396322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h3o7i3q9rrp95h3ti3csl6ranm/tonezukejusovananinog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079085729938---begobedav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inistor.com/ufiles/files/96591867877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superpart.com/files/godugekitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongmao.tw/uploads//files/202108040037433923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e3b94ea4b---venejexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a41d1a0e8---72966491670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5524c82b17dea889db46fe9fc3724734/pubogezuvukifebojile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurpinar.com/img/userfiles/files/68992834137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b62ec7cc0f---lunakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psn-monolit.ru/img_file/files/xafuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/zezegovaperetes.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_off0001a3dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A3DD 11260 bytes
SHA-256: c973df0f57aab196a36fc42e379d1a466289a00b8e795465b981e0a315ce083a
font_01_sfnt_off0001be23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BE23 19324 bytes
SHA-256: 54d82e8381be1c43793444d0bbe675eccf1b77d4fe9863fc2a111ed365323c42
font_02_sfnt_off0001f013.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F013 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1