Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f81cec7c5c42c73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-09-10 22:16:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fcf30e27d04f959f0f5d3c029e9bda90 SHA-1: e2cbe98dfcffcdddc5b508154f37c4880a808f3a SHA-256: 7f81cec7c5c42c734d4f679491468f52cf564f8260d383393cc81a53b85b0561
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive URL list points to a phishing or content-luring attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=top+10+best+android+open+world+games PDF link annotation
    • http://delannahotel.com/user_img/file/22573706274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otoform.com/upload/ckfinder/files/77846160954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ymjgolf.com/file_media/file_image/file/mutisekevebakexawegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachconggiao.com/luutru/files/fovijedowirodelogavokeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139db2f5f07f---99386340736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipai-bg.eu/img/file/rijozubekajonelosilijixaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congnghieptauthuyvietnam.vn/upload/files/bebinetirikogubexonidolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/33249917260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mislenyiallatorvos.hu/userfiles/file/12906370215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behbehaniprojects.com/uploads/files/jifotilidat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/nididife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/64118876265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kitufevebezulonewixigovin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4104320306dc57525d79aa87532b2ba0/81932419462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babijie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902105850936886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6f6ae1e3c51418f5165a883d52c3efa/70981270079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/xomitufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xmzs.org/userfiles/file/13709783173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pollackmihalyiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82281726014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog/file/joxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avon-bratislava.com/files/files/40866315936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aa77a57c818797b4bab8bed5ca5423d/36579226191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c9a867a5a---wudokalolegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/sunagulijovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volnynaklad.cz/data/file/munagipatev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxhsbl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210906_200237.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_off0000f2c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C7 17480 bytes
SHA-256: 5e7030145a506ac8c30ba30b68ffbec2c49075753aa1d1de5ca1e42f4fde93db
font_01_sfnt_off00011fbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000137d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137D4 11100 bytes
SHA-256: d0fe12376555274852a3a55f5712518940e3440fbc80304eaf0700a995f020a3