Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e3b33590589d049…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:36:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 15cd7a0a6038a2726cee23824d4fd291 SHA-1: f3a4bfe2d2375b1b2529d66cf9dc6beb6ec083c0 SHA-256: 7e3b33590589d049b40a6bf86f780c7ac75ffc88a7348c1834b9c039ff209ad1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=band+saw+safety+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://nbmounts.com/userfiles/file/1629929445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/mabovolovivakiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6g3uujk582321tn32jlnqlail2/36615954762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zulugemepuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/45066600625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radekslodkiewicz.pl/files/file/punimawifanuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotelbg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/xumuwojofusavojupilir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumisaedu.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210719_223F9D20A530DFEE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ld0o6em2o7utof9ntq1s32r1a5/vupulikukowufuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac33a9a5cd5---87909723987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kzlo.pl/fotki/fotki/file/pajarumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/zilebute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/053282570a7d4f9dadd45fe862eafafa/zujirupiban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/33170914377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/32994932576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24c256bf102064d2886899db44980a39/jutoxukadifures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1538a7f2f---zeribezazuwutukixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161248af350156---tivifatiparutivutiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43903ea794ac5c43bda2cbb31e530eb8/xonibodixuripenezep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whereestar.com/marinarubicon/admin/file/tifixobemewazofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kunuwenobapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/80535635553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l78ve3b6gnvanp00q87nrrrfj4/kebozuzujopegaramixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renewone.de/files/fujujuxesaxukipixuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/mozewem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mishor-uvk.com/uploads/files/1344833783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b13bd0b4e---7230257799.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_off0000c171.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC171 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d983.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD983 16504 bytes
SHA-256: b80d75f7d0f54fb4f5834850b90640ace448e0af7123cd353c5bd79b55b88dc8
font_02_sfnt_off0001042d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1042D 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 5a70657b98bf88e2881778881d3744ec207af2287d3f8e290542d3e5060600b3