Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7ccfcdc1fe85c50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-31 13:58:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cd42192727a41efc9b89c01ccc092016 SHA-1: e81593331b19bb155c909d886dd8c19a728a0842 SHA-256: b7ccfcdc1fe85c50060d6ebf526320034d24c3e4937fe55e207fce37942ae4cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites, likely intended to host malicious content or phishing pages. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm on disposable hosting, and ClamAV detection confirms it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The ML classifier also flagged it with high confidence. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=guantanamera+joseito+fernandez+a%C3%B1o PDF link annotation
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d03f386947---44508213839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://am-system.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wejawetodekimid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5jborf79g2c4mo6eq4d3r9680h/12385901594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloria-eurex.com/images/blog//file/domomusufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogieclassof67.com/clients/71235/File/52329101000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crimesla.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/guzujetibememumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc021.com/userfiles/file/20210610094617_a4tcbn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knuhpharm.kr/userfiles/file/20210714160750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/15515829944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f94a3cc416---mirurexofiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ed654de63be8cbc6b198cbf7c1c1f8a/16786835758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/rakunapofetezitupuvonazox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc593f3cd265c9fcc7ff88e78169e9bc/99608284700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075eaa588cdb---pikisaguxamon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761535b27fa---joniwebebiwifuvizelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9418ac12f4---volibizurozute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2tpbu7i3m6naq68us4lmb15aep/77772833264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c21707b84c9---32949520541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjalikave.hu/pictures/file/6022320199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/87398930401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2cb6ec6991---80265264523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/7570162821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/935e1d86524725e5757b9b98f1f27233/70027609422.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_off0000eece.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEECE 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 8027becd201315d341abea43951ff41556f141b071c6bce89c319363d746d00d
font_01_sfnt_off00010820.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10820 17028 bytes
SHA-256: 680b97bf07babf695021f02ee3c63bdbcbd7db1a0c50e6304ced0f9c049127a0
font_02_sfnt_off00013329.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13329 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1