Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7e3f1df98cf9bca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 19:17:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 39ad58e88cb310ac7e21a7c644136cfc SHA-1: d6f07b174e5d9b6f9aec58812829953c87724ed3 SHA-256: b7e3f1df98cf9bcad7c6eb323776eeb634796104d0255725d8638ce4be4b4e58
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URI links and link farm indicators strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=r+kelly+songs+sign+of+victory PDF link annotation
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6796d63e8429beb5e3b502a7f1f9780e/63670102881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/53789158296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/59243663960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/81291616142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d6acca1ff---tifenorirumefuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26gd8k9uslggilsq2dscjrk0dk/76616572391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champagne-marc-chauvet.com/images/files/24475265466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9mqng7jjm0hurgcn2uc4dffdmb/kerafobazinereta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aee3154915---lezezumaxadobinurak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b07ae6ad835---31873649166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.css-jp.com/upfile/files/2021/06/19/45362435857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbf31a0501---54766655114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/31766051337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d41e9c8d730a4a613ecb99982a9245a1/meximizujekotebozotas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6283eef36d97999dea652a7565c8cfe/noresizemew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunajecbiala.pl/upload/File/kekidutove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1abec6c02e---xigiveziminosakezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9e5acb86c---45366598808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4aeec36e44---befusakas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gf61lrquje7upg9q8k1vj0pm30/99153662855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/86605376240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa2d5cce1f580106873485dc6bbf37c2/bosowikonug.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_off0000cb79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB79 18560 bytes
SHA-256: 4c57ec0015ab307cd7b7b87e838c802952abda80b3c5f7f589878c92428e9777
font_01_sfnt_off0000f951.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF951 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011168.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11168 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 32447a55d62521a3f8fd106af5d03e9eeb0b0664fe27ac1bb2287ecc89302f1e