Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7617e760029e073…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-27 22:47:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 01602e8067d8a4d2e90696a58f17a834 SHA-1: d0406dd24f024bb873d6459ca38a7773cc5de0a1 SHA-256: c7617e760029e07371f2df12675c9643606e2e20bf6f9750d66997e07e3806a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple PDF link farm rules suggests a deliberate attempt to distribute links to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fortnite+mobile+android+list PDF link annotation
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161412578986fa---vobak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megalight.lv/uploads/files/3981404767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anquocrealty.com/uploads/image/files/42509755662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/xomadovanesurobetuwinupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oprandi.it/userfiles/files/37917395851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optimizecost.com/admin/ficheros_fckedit_subidos/54934472708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/files/zuvopujepogewabafoposekox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.huaikrachaohospital.go.th/assets/global/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/megelubasunoxunanedigabun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ce31b3ece---lozivumiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uslugiinzynierskie.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/69071332249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/97860350086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risorsaterra.it/userfiles/files/padofuruka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://att-na.com/upload/25864013918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziszolg.hu/editor_up/zavixuzivufen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143b93ab8493---vujitivabevop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e6dc7f3f5---nekimexoruru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofantino.it/userfiles/files/suxapapililopaxejuvuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tmtteks.com/files/jajuwaporusizifutid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhhieu.vn/hinhanh/file/telosox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://organicfertilizerproduction.com/d/files/zesalotiremolopezuzused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zovikenamafilepimolisug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoaudytor.pl/userfiles/file/26274046760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gico.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92590724001.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_off0000b045.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB045 17224 bytes
SHA-256: 438bebf1f6d53f6d111bc162d8637c2962cd6483557a31b2547fd84b184c279a
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC78 10524 bytes
SHA-256: a25019feafcd6cee9132b7ceac449e5d7cf452c4a2c563f5b52f39635507b551
font_02_sfnt_off0000f456.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF456 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1