Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7308e223410ebad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-29 01:52:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4a06069ff131714b4d3bc88118677f98 SHA-1: 9273101281aefb4be543ad1107a23ae4bf150615 SHA-256: b7308e223410ebad6f86e59eaa6056b51b272d16f3479b289d208bbeefa3b250
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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=crash+bandicoot+cortex+strikes+back+rom PDF link annotation
    • https://nordavril.com/userfiles/file/popibetafogunizikidew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meesens.be/KrMee/Tekstverwerker/pofumavibojizumimafezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boracayg.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_452DCD1D459E51C6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemtown88.com/PicOther/file/1125867565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askflip.com/uploads/files/bejupemitevixivupidowox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abarappresentanze.it/userfiles/files/55556025194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocvn.com/userfiles/image/file/19843281681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613395bca4dca---zosatapawubikemitumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90995343f1b60db63f79469a3fd1f699/29643298319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkmeiqi.com/admin/ckfinder/upfile/files/nusepinuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meesens.be/KrMee/Tekstverwerker/rodeworevofetafidete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10942926056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/51701505906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjjapan.jp/files/ckeditor/files/legunarejifuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/salemagoxebepidelidat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161460dc61f9f8---35823140751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingkady.cn/uploadfile/files/kodifowokomiwokesubupuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/053f6bbf92b1a668c56674f2099f02d6/piburuxukosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apex-architect.ru/images/file/45466442235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/78804379363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/5648855478.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_off0000ad59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD59 16452 bytes
SHA-256: 34f727b03447922ef4b6a78360a280033b9fca1c606eadf0b79d411f2f39c555
font_01_sfnt_off0000d788.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD788 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF9F 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 2f192c0eec1882e4ad1be414b6c1cddcf5eb7da18e3fa9ac656970648956f921