Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c07c6d6eb0966d7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-23 14:57:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a7f301c632b4ac116638b67930fdd401 SHA-1: 8425ea39594f15436481a1649b81b32eda899eb4 SHA-256: c07c6d6eb0966d7cedb84428e00613020eff114282ef468dff9cfb466a83e30c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. Heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and a compromised CMS upload link, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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=android+10+sip+account PDF link annotation
    • https://nordiskvillaventilation.dk/userfiles/file/balanuvufofepolukobaxelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neapol-m.ru/usr/file/66931030130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biharikft.hu/bihari-admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11233551449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99599510215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/zawegeduxajigixivipuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/jexezagaduzefaledon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellissi.org/userfiles/files/nerizawimev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130faa523866---waxerixogaral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/kevofaxefojituxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.net/contents/files/rivagavivogetidawefago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuivaivietnam.com/uploads/files/xedufeluxirulelorub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elistaprezentow.pl/userfiles/file/19639217475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/lidodegavuwizitosixak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/xapekuniguwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5of7edwardstreet.com/assets/media/files/sepedijorofadapovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://presssimayeshahr.ir/pic/file/66139449177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cottagegrad.ru/files/file/29944203466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazdedziecko.pl/_files/Media/file/41048931625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sindafaz.com.br/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61291755715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149069e7df77---gopoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613adbb017698---69325207499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149a232c18e3---42529194406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerseyshorepirates.com/userfiles/files/80505508698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613260cdc821c---12122280287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenmallbiotech.com/upload/files/kukamanaxexedukol.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_off0000d96c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD96C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f183.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF183 10584 bytes
SHA-256: f9ae4ddd692c34f24b27c06b15f72d417e3bff981a1ed3fe2cf5485ada447798
font_02_sfnt_off000109d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D8 17748 bytes
SHA-256: a8ee4630a236dedc3f8c0ee27f2b81817bf859803a728a0dff359bcccad19b0c