Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e640c3f035acb59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-10 04:05:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c847291b2ea21e11d683c636af921c8d SHA-1: 973191c13b30905214de8713c13387589265835b SHA-256: 7e640c3f035acb598abc8b10a54fd09c727f49f35aed031a430c2bbf2f9cedc6
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file that contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness, specifically phishing or trojan activity. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://fotoprint.lv/downloads/file/fivitifu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog/file/34124029243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/252055661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avon-bratislava.com/files/files/40866315936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161309d1a72d32---walesuzukadulakojesilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/37245849667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westhollywood.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/wativavibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-himki.ru/upload_picture/file/banusuzavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmrivestimenti.com/userfiles/files/76917427528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csmgh.net/pevron/www/img/file/68280124242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oe.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48787973533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithalattagarantibelgesi.com/resimlerfiles/dulafovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thibangoto.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/57252624410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interference.ajoda.eu/userfiles/files/82568999481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinatech.com/userfiles/file/mamowej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/37282816808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/7087655094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161373f2eb31e8---88840023596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiprapublication.com/uniformkontakt/userfiles/image/files/30129978432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elrey-uslugi.ru/media/file/kuwimasedeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3i576o1igpusjljkrjqj2v0l04/25980826070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phamtrangia.com/upload/files/19247545287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skoleniridicubrno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43035508447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoeing.by/pics/files/dinuzomiginudodukivuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emotionalgift.youngzonejewelry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gikekizumov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=vidmate+all+downloader+apkPDF link annotation
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/namur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15211849471.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_off0000dc4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC4D 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 7578ff081b77bc11895f75fbcc9d434462dfc4cedb0618c8d18cc2dfe5ef66e5
font_01_sfnt_off00010acf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ACF 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 335d9ff7cbbf7271078fb534898a68f62a7f46e7da680ca2132ffc2e62881de2
font_02_sfnt_off000122ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1