Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7c402e70cac35ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.7 KB Created: 2021-07-21 10:14:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a14d226a95199fcd1e8348aedcd52779 SHA-1: 542a22eb1d7fbde4341b7db3c45903beca474c17 SHA-256: b7c402e70cac35eee6368781ecc77dc408f33cee5deb14f4bdc9b8fdb92ccdc4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9895

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://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c057787f05bf5eb56cf57cb5d7548c3c/widawidadekavudapobepiru.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/53372455789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdc2ff35ddd35de31d130d52b058f405/tewipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesartsdansmonjardin.com/userfiles/file/20210516215023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alompar.hu/uploads/content_files/files/wulonudibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075346b7a854---pevapudijodiwojobefipaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dujewiduzunowawafesowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7166867.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57910440926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.doctor-carpet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/749aq8qqcgi5be32gdaqcgllv2/76680636515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/bevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/30219778501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/xamalimalaxufuvinaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d42c5efb8a9fdb9885c3d52efbeae1b/zarep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb1fd684e2---75287109169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/17764165885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fb979bc933deb53dd7a9ec84caa9c9a/76573624123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/40475895525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/740dc443349260e70e5bbccc3313deed/ramakilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interiorconsignments.com/media/file/kokoxesupexuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/nugib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khunghinhdepphuctin.com/media/ftp/file/41259609045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhs63.org/clients/8/88/88ec95b665b56da82b1de85f097fba10/File/jadazowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7d3e3dd8d---nixewuzokanej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5t4mumc9qtrr6ijs9behjtmko/loxitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+pronounce+the+german+chPDF link annotation
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000100bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000118d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D2 10692 bytes
SHA-256: e91eceb19ee92031464839721b90209620c670fb0fd1f928112225ce3a5f1590
font_02_sfnt_off00013130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13130 17940 bytes
SHA-256: e05815b4ad8aa27af57e5f50966529bf556c43ff124e1ad8ffcf3b0aadd67307
font_03_sfnt_off00015f24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F24 17924 bytes
SHA-256: cbc998220ed506656900162b4d40090b82c301c3f25b0c1f39764456de32cc9b