Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7208808082f5413…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:20:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1b0f91d882f0916e2d0ddeb2c4a9f324 SHA-1: 900c6c1a0509daae3947cea3051de22bd6f5e570 SHA-256: c7208808082f54132583f3ab75cd59bbded36e5e150ec65d8a52e15b2c2ea9b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO manipulation. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest it's designed to lead users to malicious content or exploit kits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruxetor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/61475274182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/kowudako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37164489442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c76e8b05b---tokezimalogavulawakemum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/3727433063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hobbstownis100.com/clients/6/66/66141d04a4341350d76ae3a38785cb5a/File/xewosiwijinajigubazidenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed7281ae0a---38680473800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/jerope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnndt.com/Images_upload/files/muzazowozalod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/nefuruwupujabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755e8fa940f---54100966361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e118940729a---tofasimaxujenebezusego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d9c6d400abd8c4a80a6ef79e30c54b7/57408715967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b590ea52d41---17532735904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3166a9ce84---venuvimobavibibixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fontaine-eva.fr/userfiles/files/zepulowinexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmed.vn/upload/files/majojosajamuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d2c36165e3af7887f79b8db04d6a7a8/ruvesikedunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pioneerlift.com/upfiles/editor/files/72171268641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+add+annotations+in+pdfPDF 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_off0000da5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA5E 10288 bytes
SHA-256: 22fba00b19b219bf49d9b4aa40102ee8c9a688d09ce52a1c5f823f32d44b3eb2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A5 17888 bytes
SHA-256: 194f4b6569d8369863148c9ecdb52586387ea1b177675a5aa21f3cb8ba6465bd
font_02_sfnt_off00012069.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12069 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1