Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7e6b0553213c6e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:43:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 07a7d289367540d5e044676b8dbbdc90 SHA-1: 44a95b9b7988e4dced5da081219300937d52b271 SHA-256: c7e6b0553213c6e35af9bc8d874600602ff1a676c84ba5fdf244c048bc40c955
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple suspicious URLs indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+several+photos+into+one+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f7c77d2bd7cd60da75f52484337ebfc/xovalovakepuwigalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confetti-seasons.ru/upload/files/tuwixavonefugune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/50505345976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/1513159149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fizjoactiv.eu/Upload/file/masosaselozorexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160915799bdd98---36543405645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/2626428992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camionespanamericana.com/userfiles/file/5974797960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecoaga.com/documentos/file/43169924923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085255f22a80---wizidewetabexizajigexozal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://treasurehunterdetectors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rezavifixabobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdfa821e6bc---1468997157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4cc235d294---jiboxidejukodezavisef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosenstein.lu/userfiles/files/falikarofedagaxigijud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38721133932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/90567662899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c7c9322eeb---selotuvukebivov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/kozaturibuwagovaxopopiraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acfcd6597bf---puvofas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m3hotels.com/userfiles/file/puzulelekuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plastikacz.cz/soubory/files/12348170477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/fusadowikabowinitozerov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dedizapezolenafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f197532feb---38729145255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f268c874c4a8a35072ad1b7b9519b8e/xadanafijika.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_off0000e61f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE61F 18100 bytes
SHA-256: c8907e595c2763ed04709d03797e317ae3f01b3300583fab2715d76d16a21818
font_01_sfnt_off00011531.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11531 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 4a390ee04f1e84659d792f7e5a100fb8192e9680594d4ade9b33e0444296fc77
font_02_sfnt_off00012e8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E8F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1