Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fdc0b5707102331…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-08-28 21:53:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 135bb14d44b7afc00be87e36f53ff88b SHA-1: 98c16586230f01d91b2614668adf8dff7e2c7e37 SHA-256: 7fdc0b570710233150e104bf7e307ae6fa8f71e71bf766cff79e54bd84fc0b5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The sample contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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=all+anesthesia+drugs PDF link annotation
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa2fbdd860---wuvakuzuzigawesiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psg66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuwudewutejemapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7cadfe0c0e378209c87305e91768fb3/16355557293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/difane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbicwad4afgcgd5aph7d5e.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85399685664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b347f079m4cj2fge6pum8tab12/kilajexanileg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgicorp.com/userfiles/files/lurerelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/28552537701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents/files/22455043131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bb960f710---bisadawipejiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloria-eurex.com/images/blog//file/zaborubomimufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e718838b4515e6ea793b38e4419cb0e/76499412852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambient-interier.cz/files/files/repidavorezifakab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/juvogokemizulasodekalina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lev-steklo.ru/userfiles/file/vibifumujilasiliteniwide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matskaren.se/anvandarbilder/203/files/61552957364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f47323e50ad8b6ac1311d4fae445ffb9/fubolotobupeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12efed213556f30f547223ec6080e43c/79604923155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c35cee347---62288411693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e50716746---31448359950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayanairag.com/uploads/userfiles/files/84199260894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/rifuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d70991e2b6---gaxedudovegojiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cec11f89b62e96a79a25212d7f59a865/43333270531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f435592cffa7986ab35a8afda867178b/xidafejibir.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_off0000e1df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1DF 16396 bytes
SHA-256: 22b96d9da6044ccaba8f5266d33355ce9b9c0a8060d4d6c924710463ec193e03
font_01_sfnt_off00010c25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C25 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 9e3d8fb23afabb89fe10334e842bc1c37f24a0af4b4b43f92e39809f35c22260
font_02_sfnt_off000123b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1