Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7db2c99e6a6cc42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 08:17:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 892dd2dc2a497ba689f7495516a7841c SHA-1: a0897a08a3a3a933e86a49542646e3c395a3aad5 SHA-256: b7db2c99e6a6cc4226576d2d5baea761b8fac5cc7a8ead53b6c37f2c12f22325
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised websites and potentially malicious PDF files. Heuristics indicate a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true destination or host malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://confidence-ist.mktechsol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42285418656.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://krygina40.ru/UserFiles/File/zexumim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linuxnewyork.com/draft/media/59939509223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investincarpathians.eu/app/webroot/media/files/94009851731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilghirlandaio.it/userfiles/files/danepatarawedopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b24efe7322---55384725019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324033ee802---82405229911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-soft.ru/site/htmlimages/file/93793199237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuhua.tumujike.com/assets/upload/files/202109121625139299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.com/userfiles/files/88996036900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_317E393008A050AF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/58594151980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbeo1acdy3adh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/73916276889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161333e1acf922---tuwajimukotipoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a18d4a0d9b---14371724458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dr-temt.ru/images/file/lixugovosadojotowugolunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/vigibebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wm-meyer.de/meyer/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25242035038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bk.knu.ac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piritewux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bqsa9s09bp1midbroajjo9dti4d6g25i/xebeletil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/85023905870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/65703144347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lso-msm.fr/userfiles/file/tetur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tartak-monis.pl/tartak/images/file/rabobowidazazifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134cd6fa99b0---86602207099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+half+angle+formulaPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC169 16296 bytes
SHA-256: 24e6bd04a6033db4a5140f3b39e4a7c45470f6a8a5f745fab66c0b4f774257d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB59 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 44f1d434ec1da2059d97d8613d42738a951b743dbf6e8e865cfdd5aebb877a11
font_02_sfnt_off00010296.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10296 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1